boonies

Example Sentences

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

From Salon

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

Emilia Simeonova, an associate professor at the Johns Hopkins Carey School of Business who has studied Native American casinos, said gaming projects have benefited some tribes because revenue is directed to tribe members or because some projects are “in the boonies” without other industries.

From Washington Post

If they are sent back to the boonies to relearn the game they have evidently forgotten how to play, they are “optioned,” though there is nothing optional about it.

From Washington Post

Early on, after one bumbling loss or another, Gregg Popovich had turned to his wife, Erin, the woman who’d been so supportive — who’d encouraged his dream of being a coach, who’d followed him to Colorado and now to this tiny, academic school in the boonies of college basketball.

From Los Angeles Times