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

On it, we hear a 31-year-old woman impersonating her 19-year-old self reflecting on her 15-year-old self, and doing it all to smite the men who hoped to seize control of her songs.

From New York Times ● Dec. 22, 2021

Will he lose his head, or is the Green Knight’s bark worse than his smite?

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2021

A number of religious texts speak of stones from heaven, which sometimes arrived at opportune moments to smite the enemies of the authors of those texts.

From Textbooks ● Oct. 13, 2016

What a surprise it must be to the Congolese to hear that brave David, who intended to smite the mighty Goliath, was actually jumping around pinching back plants, or worse.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

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

But he not only smites his foes; he also helps his friends.

From Time Magazine Archive

Their mighty voice thunders out and smites the heart of the awakening sleeper.

From From the Easy Chair, series 3 by George William Curtis

With honors all insatiate,   With curst ambition smit, Too far, alas!

From Black Beetles in Amber by Ambrose Bierce

They enter upon their work, smit with a passion for truth.

From Brave Men and Women Their Struggles, Failures, And Triumphs by O. E. (Osgood Eaton) Fuller

Yes, Lakshmaṇ, smit with love of me Thy brother's death thou fain wouldst see.

From The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin) Griffith

“Then when you’ve smit your rector on one cheek you quote the Bible to make him think he ought to turn his overcoat also.”

From Hepsey Burke by Frank N. (Frank Noyes) Westcott

Next they are smit with wonder at the black shells of a wagon-load of live lobsters packed in rock-weed for the country-market.

From Twice Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne

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

The out-companies with a great cheer turned and smote their pursuers.

From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien

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

The Wall Street Journal reported this week that Trump is so smitten with his Florsheim dress shoes that he shod his whole Cabinet in the same footwear.

From Slate ● Mar. 14, 2026

And it’s not just because they’re smitten with Shakespeare’s pretty words.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 20, 2026

Pep Guardiola is so smitten by Rayan Cherki that the Manchester City boss said he wanted to kiss the "incredible" French star after his virtuoso performance in Saturday's 2-1 win at Nottingham Forest.

From Barron's ● Dec. 27, 2025

It was why he’d been so eager to leave, and why he’d been smitten as soon as they’d met.

From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng

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

There is a kind of literary symmetry to Ms. Newman’s smiting her former boss with the very tools he taught her to use.

From New York Times ● Feb. 9, 2018

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

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