boonies
Example Sentences
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Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson evoke the small-bore unraveling of new parenthood in the boonies, with Lawrence in particular throwing her whole body into a creeping alienation from one’s spouse and oneself.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 18, 2025
I’m not talking about a motel in the boonies of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan or a drafty log cabin on a lake in Maine or Minnesota.
From Salon ● May 7, 2024
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
In an odd way, though, there were times when I missed the adventure, even the danger, of the real war out in the boonies.
From "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien
