be smitten by
Example Sentences
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Kate is witty and headstrong and focused on her family’s needs more than her own, and he can’t help but be smitten by it.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 21, 2022
Francisco Mojica was not the first to see CRISPR, but he was probably the first to be smitten by it.
From Nature • Jan. 11, 2017
At a media preview in advance of E3, it was hard not to be smitten by Batman mistaking Scarecrow from "The Wizard of Oz" as the DC Comics super-villain.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 13, 2015
And so I would like to say here, in this little blog about one's first attempt at reading Proust: you will either be smitten by him or not.
From The Guardian • Feb. 7, 2013
In truth the miserable man bore all the outward signs of a person who, in those times, might be supposed to be smitten by the spells of witchcraft.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 348 by Various
