barren

How to use barren in a sentence

Nothing, however, can save us but a union, which would turn our barren hills into fruitful valleys.

The cost of extraction varies in different localities, depending mainly on the mass of barren rock to be encountered and removed.

ASBESTOSROBERT H. JONES

There the quantity of barren overlying rock and earth is enormous, and detracts immensely from the value of the mines.

ASBESTOSROBERT H. JONES

The coast is sandy, and from M. Peron's description, barren and unprofitable.

After a barren discussion she held out her hand, large and generous like herself.

Victoria is not very pleasantly situated, being surrounded by barren rocks.

In spite of his eyes being affected, and his constant change of quarters, the time had not been barren.

That is the only way the long and barren halls were heatedby the steam from the wash-boilers.

Why did he quit the fruitful banks of the Euphrates for a spot so remote, so barren, and so stony as Sichem?

They scurried down a long, dismal lane toward a low-lying range of hills pertly wooded with bald patches of barren earth and rock.

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OCTOBER 26, 1985