smote

Example Sentences

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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

It glanced off the iron rail, even as Saruman left it, and passing close to Gandalf’s head, it smote the stair on which he stood.

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