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

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2021

In the fable he likes to weave, Clemson will always be the lightly regarded college from the tiny town that rises up to smite the giants.

From New York Times ● Jan. 10, 2020

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

It is entirely possible that this dishonored past will rise up soon to smite all of us.

From "The Fire Next Time" by James Baldwin

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

For none shall move the most high gods, Who are most sad, being cruel; none Shall break or take away the rods Wherewith they scourge us, not as one That smites a son.

From Poems & Ballads (First Series) by Algernon Charles Swinburne

Day after day still passed away, gaunt Famine pressed again, Each turned away from each, as if smit with a sudden pain.

From Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 3 September 1848 by Various

As Mr. Fuseli states magniloquently, after his manner, 'he was smit with the love of classic lore, and desired to trace, on dubious vestiges, the haunts of ancient genius and learning.'

From Art in England Notes and Studies by Dutton Cook

Here the sown seeds yield Abundant grain that whitens all the field— There the smit corn stands barren on the plain, Thrift reaps the straw and Famine gleans in vain.

From Black Beetles in Amber by Ambrose Bierce

But I confess, dear mother, openly, However proud my haughty spirit swell, When I within thy blessed presence dwell, Oft am I smit with shy humility.

From Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine by Heinrich Heine

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 Of the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language by Francis Turner Palgrave

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 18, 2025

Like the Boston Red Sox finally beating the Yankees in 2004, Buffalo smote their longtime nemesis in epic fashion.

From New York Times ● Jan. 16, 2022

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

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

From Washington Post ● Jun. 8, 2016

The back of my neck felt pinched, and my heart smote like a drum.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

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

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

Not the most original sketch idea, but the specific details of the characters and Padilla’s smitten reactions as the bachelorette saved the sketch from overstaying its welcome.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 14, 2025

“Yes, my ... m 'lord. You met his mother whilst out riding and were smitten by her beauty.”

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

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

“Pancake, of course!” the Incorrigible children exclaimed in delight, smiting their foreheads; how could they have failed to guess?

From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood