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

"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

This is a phenomenon only seen in severe droughts, and when the sunlight smites through a gap in the greenery at a certain angle.

From By Veldt and Kopje by Scully, W. C. (William Charles)

From nature’s birth, hence, wisdom has been smit With sweet recess, and languish’d for the shade.

From Young's Night Thoughts With Life, Critical Dissertation and Explanatory Notes by Young, Edward

With honors all insatiate,   With curst ambition smit, Too far, alas!

From Black Beetles in Amber by Bierce, Ambrose

They enter upon their work, smit with a passion for truth.

From Brave Men and Women Their Struggles, Failures, And Triumphs by Fuller, O. E. (Osgood Eaton)

How smit was poor Adelaide's heart at the sight!

From The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume II. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century by Rogers, Charles

"I rather guess Lela Barker is some smit on him, too," put in Sile Crane.

From Rival Pitchers of Oakdale by Scott, Morgan

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

Then as the dark hole stood before him and the stench came out to meet him, like a clap of thunder the thought of Frodo and the monster smote upon Sam’s mind.

From "The Two Towers" 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

Bedraggled and bleeding, he opens his eyes to find Anna ministering to him and is rhapsodically smitten.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 14, 2025

When first he’d come to Yronwood, he had been smitten with Ynys, the eldest of Lord Yronwood’s daughters.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

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

Thence it turned, smiting the Vale of Anduin with hail and lightning, and casting its shadow upon Minas Tirith with threat of war.

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