How To Use Blighter In A Sentence
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The elusive pentaquark - comprising five quarks - failed to put in an appearance during experiments at the Accelerator Facility in Virginia specifically carried out to search for the little blighter.
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And another email got quite irate about the central character, suggesting he was an evil little blighter.
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Apparently these poor blighters are confused by it all.
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So she bought one of those traps, a bit like a cavernous clothes peg, that snaps the little blighters' necks but hides the gore from view.
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And my father revealed himself to be a black-hearted blighter.
MY FAVORITE BRIDE
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So I did, and said it was the finest thing I'd struck, beat Xenophon into a cocket hat; the blighter fairly glowed.
Isabelle
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The problem is that they have to deal with racing drivers on a regular basis, and if there's one thing you don't want if you have any intention of maintaining your mental stability, it's listening to the humgudgeon, half-truths, taradiddles, quarter-truths, fiddlesticks and non-truths of even one racing driver, never mind a gridful of the blighters.
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He was a punctilious blighter and I can't see him using the Lab as a convenient place for a rendezvous.
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The only treatment that really works on these blighters is sclerotherapy.
Times, Sunday Times
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I directed the animated CBeebies show 'Boo!'" writes Mark, "and in the episode where the little stripey blighter becomes 'Footballer Boo' I managed to get him into the strip of the mighty Bristol City and, better still, in the episode the Reds score against a team wearing the blue and white quarters of the old enemy Bristol Rovers.
Which teams from outside the top flight have gone furthest in Europe?
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Now on a school day we are all on to drag the little blighters out of bed, but, surprise, surprise, the little girl was up at 6.45 am closely followed by the lad.
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For any other other seal do-gooders out there, please bear in mind that, according to experts, seal bites can in fact be lethal (if the little blighters go for your throat I presume).
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It's not so romantic when one of the aggressive blighters thinks you're trying to attack it and ends up breaking your fingers in its beak, is it?
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The sidewalks of Manhattan are congested with the little blighters, being driven at breakneck speed by suits and freaks reliving their youth.
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Lucky blighter, thought King.
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Pity the poor blighter couldn't spell.
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The stripey, pesky, stinging, buzzing blighter better known as the wasp.
The Sun
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It's something of a natural law; we've got to like the little blighters at least enough to feed and water them if the species is to survive.
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Only the females have a taste for human blood but, when you consider that one square metre of heather can house 500,000 of the little blighters, this is little consolation.
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After a day's rambling, the little blighters will be ruddy cheeked and pumped full of fresh air - and from my experience, they'll probably be begging for an early night, too.
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Babies have very basic taste buds: it's believed that mother's milk offers two taste enhancements - sugar (as lactose) and umami (as glutamate) in the hope that one or other will get the little blighters drinking.
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The art of being a successful lazy blighter is to be organised, so the mess which is my reel collection box is only a mess to other people.
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We're beggars and blighters and ne'er-do-well cads.
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To which one might say: "Oh stop putting up with it, Kate, and if you ever get the chance, jilt the arrogant blighter.
I do hope Kate Middleton has a cunning plan
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So, it was with some trepidation that I offered to expose myself to a department of the snotty-nosed blighters little darlings, even with pay.
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It's good practice in the country to be generous with bird food once Winter bites; do it too early, though and the little blighters will forsake their job of keeping the bugs down.
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Here's what she should do: every time one of the little blighters starts acting up, simply threaten to show them one of Guy Ritchie's movies.
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The blighter stole my purse!
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Not much cop considering that the game requires a hefty one hundred of the little blighters to be meandering about at once!
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We're beggars and blighters and ne'er-do-well cads.
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Three of the blighters appeared in the past week, and the similarity of the respective plots was striking.
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Poor blighters, it'll be over before they know it.
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The dawn chorus starts shortly before 4 a.m. now, and I find it impossible to sleep on once the noisy little blighters have roused me.
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For the dads, our highlight had to be the girls' excitement at being abroad and being with us; our lowest ebb was realising that the little blighters had discovered how to lock the minibar.
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The pansies and polyanthus we've already planted seem to be tough little blighters, not much at risk.
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There is only so long you can ignore that kind of behaviour, even knowing that the little blighter has a bowl filled to the brim with tasty kitty treats in the kitchen.
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Where dissent rears its ugly head let us behave with studied disdain and act as if some oik has committed some dreadful faux pas and ignore the blighter.
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For the other point about skiers is that the blighters are always hirpling about on crutches.
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From my experience of herons, they're persistent blighters.
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Other revelations include the fact that almost all of the company's advertising is aimed at children, and that McDonald's gives away free toys with its products to drag in more of the little blighters.
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At least they can be eradicated by old-fashioned combing until the scientists come up with better ways of killing the little blighters.
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All you do is exhaust yourself, coax the little blighters back into the air where you can't get at them, and make a filthy mess.
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We're beggars and blighters and ne'er-do-well cads.
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He was a nasty little blighter.
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Joe produced a video camera and the little blighters went berserk, trying to get in the picture, climbing over anything and anyone who was between them and the camera.
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He was a nasty little blighter.
