barren

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

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

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

The barren sands yielded nothing and the team, disheartened, headed back to their camp.

From Barron's