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

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

Thankfully, the propaganda artists responsible have foolishly also included the gleaming shores of Albion on their nasty little map, thereby giving hope to both the poor doomed soldiers of Blighty, not to mention Nolan’s audience.

From The Guardian • Dec. 15, 2016

One of the most curious recent ones is Blighty which is a corruption of wilayati, bilaiti.

From Stories from Tagore by Tagore, Rabindranath