barren

Example Sentences

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Under a contentious deal inked with Australia this year, the island nation will provide 30-year visas for up to 350 immigrants -- many convicted of serious crimes -- for resettlement on the barren atoll.

From Barron's

Some two dozen trees dot an otherwise shorn and barren landscape.

From Seattle Times

When we began our descent to the sea ice off Ross Island's coast, I glimpsed long fractures, snow-packed ridges, and pockmarked blue ice blown barren by the polar wind.

From Salon

As central Spain's Tirez Lagoon dried up over 20 years, becoming entirely desiccated by 2015, its barren landscape began to evoke arid Martian plains.

From Scientific American

But he still believes Mercedes can turn things around and insists the barren run isn’t weighing on his decision whether to stay.

From Washington Times