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
Israel Kachuck, a onetime astronautics engineer and general contractor, bought more than 450 acres of mostly barren land in the 1960s and began planting avocado trees.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 30, 2025
She looks at the stretching salt flats, and the water that has breathed life into their barren land.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 13, 2024
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
And then I turned a corner and, right in the middle of that barren land, I saw a cluster of mud houses, beyond them nothing but broad sky and mountains like jagged teeth.
From "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini
