boonies

Example Sentences

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Gauging by the skull flag prominently displayed in Grady’s basement, the boonies of the Pacific Northwest are populated solely by unsocialized, militia-affiliated wild men.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 15, 2025

We’re in the boonies of 18th-century Austria, a land of tall, lonely forests and craggy hillsides.

From New York Times • Jun. 20, 2024

After losing a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to compete in nationals, they're left to fend for themselves in the forested boonies of Canada.

From Salon • Dec. 19, 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

My mind began to wander, as I knew it would, back to the boonies.

From "Fallen Angels" by Walter Dean Myers