boonies

Example Sentences

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I’m not talking about a motel in the boonies of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan or a drafty log cabin on a lake in Maine or Minnesota.

From Salon • May 7, 2024

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

It is Melbourne Park’s version of the boonies.

From New York Times • Feb. 10, 2021

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

Compared with the boonies it was cushy duty.

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