boonies
Example Sentences
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Quinn’s friends in Silicon Valley would tease her, saying “Hollister, that’s the boonies, you can’t live there,” she said, but her new home, away from the corporate grind and traffic, has turned her life around.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 27, 2023
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
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
Near Chu Lai the patrols had been serious, but away from Chu Lai, in the deep boonies, they were dead serious.
From "Fallen Angels" by Walter Dean Myers
