boonies

Example Sentences

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Anne E. Thompson’s understated performance as Dani, a rookie cop patrolling the boonies, crept up slowly like a colt finding her hind legs.

From New York Times • Dec. 4, 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

For those urbanites, Dobrovolny said, Cool and the Auburn State Recreation Area are an easy jaunt to “the boonies” — and now the boonies are getting too crowded.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 11, 2020

Compared with the boonies it was cushy duty.

From "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien