boonies
Example Sentences
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Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson evoke the small-bore unraveling of new parenthood in the boonies, with Lawrence in particular throwing her whole body into a creeping alienation from one’s spouse and oneself.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 18, 2025
We lived out in the middle of nowhere, in the boonies, and our closest neighbor was two miles away.
From Salon ● Jan. 15, 2022
It is Melbourne Park’s version of the boonies.
From New York Times ● Feb. 10, 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
This’ll sound crazy, I know—a kid like me from the boonies on the Eastern Shore—but what I want to do someday is design buildings—maybe even parks and stuff.
From "Red Kayak" by Priscilla Cummings
