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

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

The dealer offers to get her counterfeit papers, if she works at a cannabis grow house tending the plants out in the boonies.

From New York Times

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

“Some of those people are on roads that are very narrow and way out in the boonies,” he said.

From New York Times