Example Sentences

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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

Forecasts indicate that a polar vortex will smite the Midwest and parts of the East Coast with dangerously cold weather.

From Slate • Jan. 29, 2019

Those waters of black death will smite us down!

From Babylonian and Assyrian Literature by Anonymous

P: But the evils that they earned smote them; and such of these as do wrong, the evils that they earn will smite them; they cannot escape.

From Three Translations of The Koran (Al-Qur'an) side by side by Ali, Abdullah Yusuf

"All ye shall be offended because of me this night; for it is written, 'I will smite the Shepherd, and the sheep of the flock shall be scattered abroad.'"

From Child's Story of the Bible by Lathbury, Mary A. (Mary Artemisia)