barren land
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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
However, there has been a growing chorus of disapproval around the Band Aid project, with critics highlighting the song's patronising portrayal of Africa as a barren land that needed rescuing by Western intervention.
From BBC ● Nov. 25, 2024
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
