boonies

Example Sentences

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We’re in the boonies of 18th-century Austria, a land of tall, lonely forests and craggy hillsides.

From New York Times • Jun. 20, 2024

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

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

From Salon • Jan. 15, 2022

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 had reached Alpha Company in the boonies and were sitting in the commanding officer’s hooch.

From "Fallen Angels" by Walter Dean Myers