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

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

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

But he not only smites his foes; he also helps his friends.

From Time Magazine Archive

In fine, the typhoid fever smites many species of animals—the horse, the pig, etc., without transmitting its contagion with the same intensity.

From On the cattle plague: or, Contagious typhus in horned cattle. Its history, origin, description, and treatment by Honor? Bourguignon

But we say likewise, thrive, rise, smit, writ, abid, rid.

From A Grammar of the English Tongue by Samuel Johnson

Iris answered: "Go thou to the trench, and show thyself To them of Troy, that, haply smit with fear, They may desist from battle."

From The Story of Troy by Michael Clarke

The god of Love at her approach Is busy as a bee; Hearts sound as any bell or roach, Are smit and sigh like me.

From The Book of Humorous Verse by Carolyn Wells

But she hung back, smit with sudden maidenly modesty at the sight of two such proper young men; and so her brother danced on without her.

From Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895 by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett

Yes, Lakshmaṇ, smit with love of me Thy brother's death thou fain wouldst see.

From The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin) Griffith

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

Tom sprang away, and breaking off a hanging branch smote the side of the willow with it.

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien

However, BBC Sport understands Arteta has become so smitten with the notion of signing Vinicius that he is viewed internally as the club's number one target.

From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026

But he quickly was smitten with the game and the tournament — so much so he has attended every World Cup since 1990.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 2, 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

His face was twisted with amazement and anger to the likeness of some wild beast that, as it crouches on its prey, is smitten on the muzzle with a stinging rod.

From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien

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

There is a kind of literary symmetry to Ms. Newman’s smiting her former boss with the very tools he taught her to use.

From New York Times ● Feb. 9, 2018

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

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