barren land
Example Sentences
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Reaching the store requires a 50-mile trek from Phoenix through barren land dotted by cactuses and the occasional sign warning of blowing dust.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 18, 2026
Unicef, the UN charity for children, warned that some of the "safe" zones are "tiny patches of barren land" with no water, sanitation or shelter.
From BBC • Dec. 6, 2023
They have to go south to find areas of barren land that don’t have snow.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 16, 2023
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 • Feb. 27, 2023
Many of them looked to have been worked by hands, though now they lay tumbled and ruinous in a bleak, barren land.
From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien
