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

On it, we hear a 31-year-old woman impersonating her 19-year-old self reflecting on her 15-year-old self, and doing it all to smite the men who hoped to seize control of her songs.

From New York Times • Dec. 22, 2021

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

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 30, 2021

She hastened down to stand beside Diomedes and urge him to smite the terrible god and have no fear.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton