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Example sentences for "smote"

Lexicographically close words:
smoothish; smoothly; smoothness; smooths; smot; smothe; smother; smothered; smothering; smothers
  1. With his spear he smote his heart in two, and went away without speaking.

  2. The carter smote his horses, and cried like mad, "Hait!

  3. I was extremely anxious during that minute, for the sound of the hammers smote upon my excited ear like the sharp strokes of a bell.

  4. Hugo opened his eyes and the light smote them with pain.

  5. In the hall behind them there was a flash, and the loud and deafening report of a pistol smote upon their ears.

  6. Seeming to look at one man, Dick swung his club and smote another wretch over the head.

  7. Dick smote his horse with his open hand, which fell with a pistol-like crack on the animal's rump.

  8. Dick had heard the sound of running water rising from almost directly beneath his feet, and a cold breath of air came up and smote him in the face.

  9. Now hard by that tree were shepherds with their dogs; so the crow flew towards them and smote the face of the earth with his wings, cawing and crying out.

  10. So saying, he took the sword from her and, raising his hand, smote her on the neck and made her head fly from her body.

  11. The King smote hand upon hand and exclaimed, "There is no Majesty and there is no Might save in Allah, the Glorious, the Great!

  12. At this Kanmakan laughed and smote him with the spear butt on the breast, and he fell to the ground squirming like a snake.

  13. Thereupon the slave feared for his life; so he smote Queen Abrizah with his sword and slew her in his fury; then mounting his horse he went his way.

  14. Then he awoke from his dream gladdened by the good tidings he had seen, and after a few days, Death smote him, and because of his dying great grief fell on the people of Baghdad, and simple and gentle mourned for him.

  15. However, she hearkened not to him, but smote the wooden bolt with the stone and broke it in half, whereupon the door opened.

  16. Perfume from oleander hedges smote softly the olfactories of Brown; the southern whip-poor-wills' hurried whisper thrilled the darkness with a deeper mystery.

  17. And an angel of the Lord instantly smote him because he gave not glory to God, and being eaten with worms he expired.

  18. Then a spirit of revenge seized me, And I infected my four sons with it, And I brooded upon retaliation, Until the great physician, Nature, Smote me through with paralysis To give my soul and body a rest.

  19. The bellowing of the landing-rockets smote their ears.

  20. He smelled overheated paint, where the sunlight smote on a metal bulkhead.

  21. She turned her head when she heard Mr. Digby's footsteps, and the face he saw then smote his heart.

  22. So saying, he smote his breast in all the agony of woe, and besought the Spaniard to relate the steps he took in consequence of this disaster.

  23. Divers mortifications I sustained with that fortitude which became a Castilian who lay under obligations to the father; till, at length, laying aside all decorum, he smote me.

  24. Banker Hammond pushed his way through the congratulating crowd and smote the winner cordially on the shoulder.

  25. His teeth were clinched, and taking one quick step forward, he smote Heckle fair between the two eyes and felled him to the ground.

  26. The rock replied, "As truly as thou livest, I have not seen him since the day when with his staff he twice smote me.

  27. Balaam, who had with blows attempted to make the ass walk straight ahead, flew into a rage when she lay down altogether and would not budge from the spot, so that he smote her all the more.

  28. Behold, He smote the rock, that the waters gushed out, and the streams overflowed; He can give bread also; can He not provide flesh for His people?

  29. He looked bewildered, wistful, and her heart smote her; but the inopportune fiend would speak.

  30. Ban't my way to turn left cheek to Jehovah Jireh after He's smote me 'pon the right.

  31. The bell in the mysterious steeple smote upon the air.

  32. As passed the thunder-peal, Came raindrops, falling near, A rain one could not feel, A rain that smote the ear.

  33. Lynch smote himself sonorously on the chest and said: --Who has anything to say about my girth?

  34. The frail gay sound smote his heart more strongly than a trumpet blast, and, not daring to lift his eyes, he turned aside and gazed, as he walked, into the shadow of the tangled shrubs.

  35. And Mittie May answered the cue which had lived in her brain for fifteen long years and more, just as always she answered it, or sought to, when that tune smote her eardrums.

  36. On a summer's afternoon, sultry and close, the heavens suddenly went all black, and quick gusts smote the earth with threats of a great windstorm.

  37. With a loud metallic smack the bow of the swerving taxicab, coming up from the rear, treacherously smote the mastodonic Queenie right where her wrinkles were thickest.

  38. Sam; and having established Job's identity beyond all doubt, he smote his leg, and vented his feelings in a long, shrill whistle.

  39. For a time Lavarcam smiled; but when she saw that the king’s beautiful ward was ever growing more and more wrought, her heart smote her.

  40. When she heard these sobs, Aeifa’s heart smote her.

  41. Peterkin’s heart smote him, for he heard the pain in the calling voices; but it was so cool and quiet there among the lilies, and it was so sweet to be out of sight of every one and lost, that he could not break the spell.

  42. Thinking of these things, her heart smote her as she fared towards Emain Macha, and at the last she decided to say no word to the king as to what she feared Darthool may have told the swineherd.

  43. That Saturday, Lower Borlock smote the men of Chidford hip and thigh.

  44. Leslie listened, and her conscience smote her.

  45. And Yorke's heart smote him as he thought that he would have to give that faithful servant notice.

  46. He will go out to meet the traitor, and, after one flash of power, which smote the soldiers to the ground, will yield Himself to the hands of sinners.

  47. And one of them that stood by drew a sword, and smote a servant of the high priest, and cut off his ear.

  48. And they smote Him on the head with a reed, and did spit upon Him, and bowing their knees worshipped Him.


  49. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "smote" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.