the 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
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
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
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
