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
She can’t summon Jason from the depths to smite the iniquitous.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 30, 2021
In the fable he likes to weave, Clemson will always be the lightly regarded college from the tiny town that rises up to smite the giants.
From New York Times • Jan. 10, 2020
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
Vocabulary lists containing smite
The Hobbit
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