boonies
Example Sentences
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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 ● Apr. 4, 2023
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
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
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
