barren

Example Sentences

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In both cases, they create warm, nutrient-rich pockets in the otherwise cold and barren deep ocean.

From Science Daily • Apr. 3, 2026

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

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 1, 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 barren sands yielded nothing and the team, disheartened, headed back to their camp.

From Barron's • Feb. 27, 2026

But they would not leave their barren isle.

From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin