boondocks

Example Sentences

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To say something is “out in the tules” is a common expression roughly equivalent to “out in the boondocks.”

From Los Angeles Times

But Turner Mountain isn’t just some ramshackle ski area off in the boondocks.

From Washington Post

Since the election, liberal commentators have made “rural America” a term of denigration, the same as “boondocks” and “nowhere.”

From The New Yorker

The government gave in - and realised that if it was going to send postal workers into the boondocks, it'd better improve the road network, too.

From BBC

“I want travelers to explore a 15th-century Florentine culture and society that allowed a boy from the Tuscan boondocks to become one of the greatest artists and thinkers of all time,” said Mr. King.

From New York Times