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
Since the war began the market has expanded across the barren land on a desert road out of Omdurman, attracting the poorest of the poor with its low prices.
From BBC • Sep. 26, 2024
They have to go south to find areas of barren land that don’t have snow.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 16, 2023
Lagoons existed now where once there had been barren land.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
