barren land
Example Sentences
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“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
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
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
Lagoons existed now where once there had been barren land.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
