barren land
Example Sentences
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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
The water can be pumped onto barren land — storm or not — and allowed to sink into the ground.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 20, 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
