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

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