the 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

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