Blighty
Example Sentences
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Those cameras have spread his fame far beyond Blighty.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026
The contrast he sought to draw with a gloomy Blighty was not subtle.
From BBC ● Dec. 18, 2024
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
Blighty is the Tommies' nickname for London, and a "Blighty one" is a wound that's serious enough to cause your return to London.
From Trenching at Gallipoli The personal narrative of a Newfoundlander with the ill-fated Dardanelles expedition by John Gallishaw
