boonies

Example Sentences

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Gauging by the skull flag prominently displayed in Grady’s basement, the boonies of the Pacific Northwest are populated solely by unsocialized, militia-affiliated wild men.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 15, 2025

I’m not talking about a motel in the boonies of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan or a drafty log cabin on a lake in Maine or Minnesota.

From Salon • May 7, 2024

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

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

They were still my buddies, at least on one level, but once you leave the boonies, the whole comrade business gets turned around.

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