barren

Example Sentences

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Under a contentious deal inked with Australia this year, the island nation will provide 30-year visas for up to 350 immigrants -- many convicted of serious crimes -- for resettlement on the barren atoll.

From Barron's

The open areas in between the seven fields where fans stalk players for autographs, photographs or any interaction were nothing but barren brown grass.

From Seattle Times

Watching a grown man choke up at his memory of being dragged through a hallway and locked in a barren isolation room would lead any feeling person to wonder why Washington state continues these practices.

From Seattle Times

After dethatching, “it looked like a barren desert out there for a lot of winter,” she laughs.

From Seattle Times

Instead, the young mother found barren land, overcrowding and scant resources at Dadaab, one of the world's largest refugee camps and home to 300,000 people.

From Reuters