barren land
Example Sentences
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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
She looks at the stretching salt flats, and the water that has breathed life into their barren land.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 13, 2024
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
