barren

Example Sentences

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The terrain might look dry, dusty and seems rather barren, but it's far from that.

From BBC • Mar. 29, 2026

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

Don’t trample or pick the flowers and stay on the paths because even barren ground could have seeds germinating beneath.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 17, 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

Up here the country was quite barren and the hills were rocky and hard-baked clay furrowed by the rain.

From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway