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Sentence example with the word 'blighty'
blighty
Definition
n.
a slang term for Great Britain used by British troops serving abroad
Last update: October 16, 2015
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At the end of June I went back to Blighty wounded.
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Back there in Blighty they don't talk about nothing but this bloody war.
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Men will dream of home and Blighty for weeks and months.
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A '
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Our right section commander got a
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Then through my mind flashed the admonition of our bayonet instructor back in Blighty.
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Back in Blighty the munition workers weren't quite up to snuff, the way they are now.
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I thought you would be safely in old Blighty by this time," he added, shaking him warmly by the hand."
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And I hoped, too, that his wounds would bring him home to us--to Blighty, as the Tommies were beginning to call Britain.
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