barren

Example Sentences

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The terrain might look dry, dusty and seems rather barren, but it's far from that.

From BBC • Mar. 29, 2026

Understanding how this wetter world transformed into the barren landscape we see now remains a major question in planetary science.

From Science Daily • Mar. 27, 2026

Also barren for many years, she eventually receives a message directly from God that she will have twin sons and that her youngest son will one day rule.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 20, 2026

A lonely coyote stalks the barren ground around oil pump jacks; a dead deer, its eye milky white, lies on a fern-like blanket of boughs.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 27, 2026

The steamy green jungles of the Amazon morphed into the barren cornfields of Bone Gap in the last weeks of winter.

From "Bone Gap" by Laura Ruby