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

Quinn’s friends in Silicon Valley would tease her, saying “Hollister, that’s the boonies, you can’t live there,” she said, but her new home, away from the corporate grind and traffic, has turned her life around.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 27, 2023

After losing a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to compete in nationals, they're left to fend for themselves in the forested boonies of Canada.

From Salon • Dec. 19, 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

Miraculously, I hadn’t lost service yet, despite wandering deep into the Sequoyah County boonies.

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith