Blighty
Example Sentences
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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
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
Kick off: 7.45pm on the clock on the Guardian’s wall in Blighty, 8.45pm local in Paris.
From The Guardian • Mar. 6, 2018
How often on the march one had looked back oneself into a passing ambulance and wished, rather shamefully, for a "Blighty" one.
From Attack An Infantry Subaltern's Impression of July 1st, 1916 by Masefield, John