boonies

Example Sentences

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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

And though the rights holders eventually backed out of the venture, and all but three of the songs were discarded, the interbred DNA of Broadway and the boonies lives on.

From New York Times • Apr. 4, 2023

We lived out in the middle of nowhere, in the boonies, and our closest neighbor was two miles away.

From Salon • Jan. 15, 2022

In contrast, New York and other older Eastern cities were already overflowing, and courses had to be built in the boonies.

From Golf Digest • Apr. 17, 2020

In an odd way, though, there were times when I missed the adventure, even the danger, of the real war out in the boonies.

From "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien