smite
Example Sentences
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“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 has a daughter, Olympia, who is 4 — nearly the age she was when she first picked up a tennis racket and started to smite opponents with it.
From Washington Post • Aug. 9, 2022
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
Will he lose his head, or is the Green Knight’s bark worse than his smite?
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 29, 2021
Before I could speak or Katz could seize a log with which to smite her dead, she said, “Well, I don’t mind if I do,” and ate it in two bites.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
Vocabulary lists containing smite
The Hobbit
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