Smites is an English word. Below you'll find 2 example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Smites meaning
third-person singular simple present indicative of smite
Using Smites
- The main meaning on this page is: third-person singular simple present indicative of smite
Context around Smites
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 0 start, 1 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 2 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Smites
- In this selection, "smites" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 23.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Recognizable usage signals include battle and smites them only and hand that smites. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "smites" sits close to words such as aabc, aacsb and aadar, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with smites
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
They bend the forest and crush the city, yet may not forest or city behold the hand that smites. (19 words)
And that this must go on eternally, unless a Christian man of a particular stature goes into the battle and smites them, only then will they stay dead. (28 words)
And that this must go on eternally, unless a Christian man of a particular stature goes into the battle and smites them, only then will they stay dead. (28 words)
They bend the forest and crush the city, yet may not forest or city behold the hand that smites. (19 words)
Example sentences (2)
And that this must go on eternally, unless a Christian man of a particular stature goes into the battle and smites them, only then will they stay dead.
They bend the forest and crush the city, yet may not forest or city behold the hand that smites.