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

Their only other visit to Blighty saw them batter Everton 5-1 at Goodison Park in the Europa League back in 2017.

From The Guardian • Oct. 20, 2021

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

Except at the Scala, where the pictures used to be good and dull, most of the movie theatres are a little impossible in Blighty.

From Over Here Impressions of America by a British officer by MacQuarrie, Hector