Blighty

Example Sentences

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Next up for Westwood is 49-year-old Richard Bland of England, whom he has known for 30 years dating to their time on the junior circuit in blighty.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 24, 2022

Jukebox Jack: That's all I wanted to wake up to, a report that showed England hadn't left all their heart and fight back in blighty.

From BBC • Dec. 10, 2021

A blighty wound was a wound sufficiently serious to merit being sent home, and one might also be hit by a blighty bullet inflicting such a wound.

From BBC • Feb. 22, 2014

Therefore Lord Elgin was quite within his rights to bring them back to blighty and the Greeks can moan all they like but the marbles are not leaving the museum while I'm in charge.

From The Guardian • Oct. 25, 2010

Müller explains that he has a flesh wound in his thigh; a good blighty.

From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque