boonies
Example Sentences
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Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson evoke the small-bore unraveling of new parenthood in the boonies, with Lawrence in particular throwing her whole body into a creeping alienation from one’s spouse and oneself.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 18, 2025
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
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
Compared with the boonies it was cushy duty.
From "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
