the 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
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
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
We were walking the boonies, past rice paddies, toward yet another hill.
From "Fallen Angels" by Walter Dean Myers
