boonies

Example Sentences

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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

She said the nearby Cedarpines Park community “is a big elderly community. They live in the boonies, and nobody’s gone there yet.”

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 9, 2023

Isolated in the boonies with only the housekeeper to talk to, the governess longs to do something meaningful with her life and to be seen in full by the man she admires.

From Slate • Oct. 9, 2020

“I was looking in on another guy when I saw you sleeping and thought I recognized you. You been out in the boonies much?”

From "Fallen Angels" by Walter Dean Myers