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

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

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

Am afraid, though it is nothing serious, that it will be a case of "Blighty" for him.

From Servants of the Guns by Jeffery, Jeffery E.