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

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

We lived out in the middle of nowhere, in the boonies, and our closest neighbor was two miles away.

From Salon • Jan. 15, 2022

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

We were walking the boonies, past rice paddies, toward yet another hill.

From "Fallen Angels" by Walter Dean Myers