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

Our favorite ex-royals book it out of Old Blighty in search of fairer shores in the new ripped-from-the-headlines TV movie “Harry & Meghan: Escaping the Palace.”

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 5, 2021

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

Don’t worry, my laddie, you’ll see more of ’em than you want before you get ’ome to Blighty again, that is, if you’re lucky enough to get back.

From Short Stories of the New America Interpreting the America of this age to high school boys and girls by Various