barren

How To Use barren In A Sentence

• Look at the nests of ants, how around them the land is barren. A Plague of Angels
• In an act of substitution he replaces barren dryness with his fertile fluidity.
• Norman took me into his unkempt, barren back garden to show me the only thing which he could boast of - his four fat white rabbits.
• The barren stems appear in early summer after the fertile ones. Secrets of the Soil
• Fish were abundant, to be sure, along that coast, where the invisible fruitfulness of the sea made compensation for the blank barrenness of the land; but they were swift and wary, and had to be caught, one at a time, outwitted and outspeeded in their own element. Kings in Exile
• The so-called "particularism" of Israel's idea of God was in fact the real strength of Israel's religion; it thus escaped from barren mythologisings, and became free to apply itself to the moral tasks which are always given, and admit of being discharged, only in definite spheres. Prolegomena
• Sometimes we throw our seeds to them, but our efforts seem hopeless since their soil is barren, empty and dead.
• Us ending a barren spell at the weekend and Farsley losing will have no bearing on this match.
• Nowadays, schoolyards and community playgrounds and public parks are barren on a weekday afternoon.
• The tale of the Fisher King involves a king who is lame in one leg (a euphemism for impotency) which in turn causes the land to become barren (infertile).