Example Sentences

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These plagues had smitten Pontiac because 500 municipal workers had struck to win a 15� increase for workers paid by the hour, $20 a month for those on salary.

From Time Magazine Archive

He still had enemies, but he had smitten the big ones hip & thigh.

From Time Magazine Archive

Meantime in Memphis, Tenn., Federal Judge Harry Bennett Anderson had smitten the Lumber Code's price-fixing provision a stunning blow between the eyes.

From Time Magazine Archive

I was in my own room as usual—just myself, without obvious change: nothing had smitten me, or scathed me, or maimed me.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

On the brink of the worst of all his crimes his nerve had failed him, or, to do him better justice, his heart had smitten him.

From At Large by Hornung, E. W. (Ernest William)