barren

Example Sentences

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In both cases, they create warm, nutrient-rich pockets in the otherwise cold and barren deep ocean.

From Science Daily • Apr. 3, 2026

Also barren for many years, she eventually receives a message directly from God that she will have twin sons and that her youngest son will one day rule.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 20, 2026

Penalty-box poachers Luca Toni and Mario Gomez had prolific seasons interspersed with barren runs.

From BBC • Mar. 3, 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

Then, angry at himself, he spat—spat with wrath and contempt, for himself, with utter hate, onto the barren ground.

From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick