smite

“Curtis and I served together in the state Senate, he is your state senator. He is Republican. I am a Democrat. But when we team up in a bipartisan manner, we will smite evil.”

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 25, 2024

He can create countless jobs with a flick of his fingers, and smite al-Qaeda leaders with the lightning that flies from his open palms.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 9, 2022

She can’t summon Jason from the depths to smite the iniquitous.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2021

He can smite the Green Knight on the condition that, the next Christmas, he allows the knight to smite him back.

From New York Times ● Jul. 29, 2021

The idea clearly was that the colonists, enraged by the putative assault, would rise up and smite Massasoit.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

Indecent exposure … Fantasy author Terry Goodkind has publicly castigated a pirate of his ebook Wizard hero Richard Rahl smites wrongdoers with his Sword of Truth.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 11, 2012

"He plays silly shots to get out and bowls lots of pies but inbetween times he smites big sixes and bowls unplayable deliveries."

From The Guardian ● Jan. 12, 2011

Pareja nods away a long high ball, but it drops out to the onrushing Russian, who smites the thing first time, dipping and fizzing past Dykan in the Spartak goal.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 19, 2010

"The idea that a publisher sits up here and issues directives, wields great power and smites people to their knees is a lot of baloney," he says.

From Time Magazine Archive

No foot is on thy silent deck, Upon thy helm no hand, No ripple hath the soundless wind That smites thee from the land.

From Poetry of the Supernatural by Various

I declare, said my uncle Toby, smit with pity, I know of none; unless it be the pleasure which it has pleased God—— A fiddlestick! quoth she.

From The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

"I rather guess Lela Barker is some smit on him, too," put in Sile Crane.

From Rival Pitchers of Oakdale by Morgan Scott

Earl March look'd on his dying child, And, smit with grief to view her— The youth, he cried, whom I exiled Shall be restored to woo her.

From The Golden Treasury Selected from the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language and arranged with Notes by Various

Many who belonged not to the orders, smit with desire for the glory of martyrdom, cast the mantles of Templars around them, and went cheerfully to death as such.

From Secret Societies of the Middle Ages by Thomas Keightley

Ah for the eyes that have smit me with madness!

From The Literature of Ecstasy by Albert Mordell

I’ve never touched a gun nor smote anything larger than a stink bug.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 18, 2025

So went Robert Downey Jr. from the presence of Jimmy Fallon and smote the entire internet with an unwatchable video.

From Slate ● Apr. 26, 2018

Johnson, the Hall of Famer, famously smote a bird in flight with a spring training pitch in 2001.

From New York Times ● Aug. 18, 2017

In which arena rock was smote upside the backside by the punk movement.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 8, 2016

At that moment Gandalf lifted his staff, and crying aloud he smote the bridge before him.

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien

The early days of their relationship played out on the series, with both Hall and DelVecchio smitten from the start.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2026

Mr. Guimarães performed at what might be the international locus of all things magical, the famed Magic Castle, a private club in Hollywood where professionals perform and the smitten gather to celebrate them.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

Parkin encouraged people to watch the phenomenon, himself profoundly affected by seeing his first eclipse that had left him "smitten".

From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026

Hyde, however, happened to notice him early in the season and was immediately smitten.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 21, 2026

Leah returned to New York City accompanied by the spirit-believing, newly smitten Mr. Underhill.

From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock

Mr. Harbour shines as the jolly, but surprisingly in shape, fat man smiting foes with a Christmas star, icicles and even a lethal candy cane.

From Washington Times ● Feb. 3, 2023

“Even in Akhenaten’s time, so much of her iconography was that of a male king, smiting enemies and doing things like that.”

From Scientific American ● Nov. 4, 2022

Sure they’re great for smiting your enemies, but I bet they’re also perfect for quickly taking you to a tropical getaway.

From The Verge ● Jun. 28, 2016

“For example, on certain relief blocks from Luxor and Karnak temples she’s shown smiting Egypt’s enemies, a position which is usually reserved for the king alone.”

From National Geographic ● Nov. 28, 2015

There were beds ringing, docks smiting in belfries, standards floating—until the whole air above them seemed to be alive.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White