Blighty

Example Sentences

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Not far away is an earlier housing development that is even more redolent of Blighty: Foxhall Village.

From Washington Post • Nov. 19, 2022

Many folks come here from Blighty to break into America and give up if it doesn’t happen in a year or two.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 16, 2022

When she and Buster have to be extradition exiles in Brazil, she is stricken with homesickness and returns to Blighty before, finally, Buster comes back to be with her.

From The Guardian • Jun. 25, 2020

Back in Blighty, he's also the host of Sky quiz show A League of Their Own and co-created and starred in BBC Two's The Wrong Mans.

From BBC • May 28, 2019

When this was sent I had no more expectation of a return to Blighty than has a rich Bishop of not entering the Kingdom of Heaven.

From Cavalry of the Clouds by Bott, Alan