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
“The city will become a barren land of empty storefronts and empty office buildings as employers go elsewhere.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2025
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
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
