smote

Example Sentences

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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

Then suddenly with a deep-throated call a great horn blew, and the blasts of it smote the hills and echoed in the hollows, rising in a mighty shout above the roaring of the falls.

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien