barren
Example Sentences
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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
The side streets were still unpaved, fading out to the barren pebbly lots of a railyard and a gas plant.
From Literature
Rovere, on the other hand, found the book to be “barren of ideas and imagination,” and “scarcely more interesting or enlightening than the day-by-day newspaper accounts.”
From Salon
He showed a barren creekbed filled with cobbles, then a green wetland filled with ducks.
From Los Angeles Times
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 Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
