barren

Example Sentences

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The big barren parlor seemed suddenly emptier still.

From Literature

Don’t trample or pick the flowers and stay on the paths because even barren ground could have seeds germinating beneath.

From Los Angeles Times

The side streets were still unpaved, fading out to the barren pebbly lots of a railyard and a gas plant.

From Literature

Rovere, on the other hand, found the book to be “barren of ideas and imagination,” and “scarcely more interesting or enlightening than the day-by-day newspaper accounts.”

From Salon

He showed a barren creekbed filled with cobbles, then a green wetland filled with ducks.

From Los Angeles Times