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

They have to go south to find areas of barren land that don’t have snow.

From Seattle Times

But Brown didn’t look at the Kings and see a barren wasteland.

From Washington Post

“It’s a flying squirrel that lives in a bit of a more barren landscape,” Helgen said.

From Washington Post

In the war-scarred Kharkiv region, warning signs occasionally appear next to brown, barren fields which were once front lines.

From BBC