smite
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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
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
A misconception exists that vaccines transform us into totally immune beings, able to instantaneously smite any virus we encounter.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 21, 2021
What a surprise it must be to the Congolese to hear that brave David, who intended to smite the mighty Goliath, was actually jumping around pinching back plants, or worse.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
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 inevitable suspicion smites neutral economists that much of this iron and steel must be going secretly into munitions.
From Time Magazine Archive
No gleam of jewels marred the white perfection of face and figure, but her dilated eyes burned like brown agates when the light smites them.
From A Speckled Bird by Augusta J. Evans Wilson
A bright shaft has smit the streams, With gold gleams the water-flag; Leaps the fish, and on the hills Ardour thrills the flying stag.
From The High Deeds of Finn and other Bardic Romances of Ancient Ireland by Stephen Reid
At last, like one that, long Compassed with good, is smit by sudden thought Of greater good, thus spake he: 'Have ye, sons, Here in this house the Blessed Sacrament?'
From Legends of the Saxon Saints by Aubrey De Vere
They enter upon their work, smit with a passion for truth.
From Brave Men and Women Their Struggles, Failures, And Triumphs by O. E. (Osgood Eaton) Fuller
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
“Then when you’ve smit your rector on one cheek you quote the Bible to make him think he ought to turn his overcoat also.”
From Hepsey Burke by Frank N. (Frank Noyes) Westcott
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
But a breath smote my face at the last door like a blast from a furnace, and there I fell down dumb.”
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
The early days of their relationship played out on the series, with both Hall and DelVecchio smitten from the start.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2026
Parkin encouraged people to watch the phenomenon, himself profoundly affected by seeing his first eclipse that had left him "smitten".
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 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
The adaptation retained the 18th-century setting and the central plot: The teenage siren Manon, on her way to a convent, runs off with a smitten young aristocrat, the Chevalier Des Grieux.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 17, 2026
Linda Ramirez was smitten with Sofia Cracchiolo because she was taking three languages at once.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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
“Pancake, of course!” the Incorrigible children exclaimed in delight, smiting their foreheads; how could they have failed to guess?
From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood
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