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
Nam: It was a massive compound way out in the boonies!
From Salon • Mar. 15, 2021
It is Melbourne Park’s version of the boonies.
From New York Times • Feb. 10, 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
We were walking the boonies, past rice paddies, toward yet another hill.
From "Fallen Angels" by Walter Dean Myers
