barren

Example Sentences

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Understanding how this wetter world transformed into the barren landscape we see now remains a major question in planetary science.

From Science Daily • Mar. 27, 2026

He showed a barren creekbed filled with cobbles, then a green wetland filled with ducks.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 1, 2026

A lonely coyote stalks the barren ground around oil pump jacks; a dead deer, its eye milky white, lies on a fern-like blanket of boughs.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 27, 2026

We are also in a barren time for royal celebrations that bring together communities nationwide.

From BBC • Feb. 22, 2026

We stopped at the last meager outpost hunkered before the barren sea, where Smithy and Mara could trade their yak for two camels.

From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri