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

He can create countless jobs with a flick of his fingers, and smite al-Qaeda leaders with the lightning that flies from his open palms.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 9, 2022

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2021

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

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

"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

A melancholy smites you as you enter them.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, vol 1-98, 1850-1899 None by Various (magazine) Harper

They’re fleid to smit their ain litlins; and as it happens, Sam’l’s friends is a’ aff to the glen.

From The Little Minister by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie

"Just so, and keeps his own lodgin' house in that little smit on a cottage across the creek on the Brookhouse farm road."

From Out of a Labyrinth by Lawrence L. Lynch

A bright shaft has smit the streams, With gold gleams the water-flag; Leaps the fish, and on the hills Ardour thrills the flying stag.

From The High Deeds of Finn and other Bardic Romances of Ancient Ireland by Stephen Reid

He chafes her small white hands and dainty limbs, And, from the well, drops water on her brow; But all in vain—so cold and still she lies, Like living beauty sudden smit with death!

From Myra's Well A Tale of All-Hallow-E'en by George Francis Dawson

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

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

It glanced off the iron rail, even as Saruman left it, and passing close to Gandalf’s head, it smote the stair on which he stood.

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

By the time the draft rolled around in 2021, the Yankees were smitten.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026

The early days of their relationship played out on the series, with both Hall and DelVecchio smitten from the start.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2026

Mr. Guimarães performed at what might be the international locus of all things magical, the famed Magic Castle, a private club in Hollywood where professionals perform and the smitten gather to celebrate them.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

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

I was in my own room as usual—just myself, without obvious change: nothing had smitten me, or scathed me, or maimed me.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

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

But he’d also expected Ashmodai to smite him on the spot, whatever smiting entailed, once he realized what Boaz had done.

From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny