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

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

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 that wintry blast consumption smites his smiling victims, and fills up the weekly calendar of his fearful ravages.

From A Discourse on the Evils of Dancing by John F. Mesick

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

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 Charles Rogers

"Dear lassie," he cried, "I am smit wi' your charms, Consent but to marry me now, I 'm as good as ever laid hair upon thairms, An' I 'll cheer baith the fiddle an' you."

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

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

As Mr. Fuseli states magniloquently, after his manner, 'he was smit with the love of classic lore, and desired to trace, on dubious vestiges, the haunts of ancient genius and learning.'

From Art in England Notes and Studies by Dutton Cook

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

Branched lightning smote down upon the eastward hills.

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

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

The magazine on the top of the stack features a photo of Hideo at a banquet, seated beside a completely smitten blond woman who is whispering something intimately into his ear.

From "Warcross" by Marie Lu

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