boonies

Example Sentences

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Anne E. Thompson’s understated performance as Dani, a rookie cop patrolling the boonies, crept up slowly like a colt finding her hind legs.

From New York Times • Dec. 4, 2023

She said the nearby Cedarpines Park community “is a big elderly community. They live in the boonies, and nobody’s gone there yet.”

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 9, 2023

Nam: It was a massive compound way out in the boonies!

From Salon • Mar. 15, 2021

Isolated in the boonies with only the housekeeper to talk to, the governess longs to do something meaningful with her life and to be seen in full by the man she admires.

From Slate • Oct. 9, 2020

“If he was laying out in the boonies, and he was calling to you needing your help, what would you do?”

From "Fallen Angels" by Walter Dean Myers