boonies
Example Sentences
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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
Nam: It was a massive compound way out in the boonies!
From Salon • Mar. 15, 2021
It is Melbourne Park’s version of the boonies.
From New York Times • Feb. 10, 2021
Isolated in the boonies with only the housekeeper to talk to, the governess longs to do something meaningful with her life and to be seen in full by the man she admires.
From Slate • Oct. 9, 2020
You had to be away from the boonies for three, maybe four days before you felt rested.
From "Fallen Angels" by Walter Dean Myers
