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

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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).
Indeed, as a rule, the blessing of the impious is a curse, wherefore Rebekah remained barren for years. The Legends of the Jews — Volume 1
What tugs at Carlyon's heartstrings is the fate of the soldiers, the boys from the outback and the small towns who dreamed of glory but found only death and disaster in the barren wastes of Gallipoli.
The barren trees were in tune with the sense of desolation all around.
Taking a natural view of the country, it is barren, sandy, and mountainous, interspersed with a few green spots, called oases, or made fertile by the inundation of some river in the rainy season. Incidents Connected with the Life of Selim Aga, A Native of Central Africa
Ancient sources alluded to this element of frigidity by categorising the sign as ‘slightly barren’ in matters of fertility, and drawing pre-pubescent youth or sexless beings into its symbolic expression.
The city was perched on its barren, hot rock, with scarcely a drop of water, and its inhabitants must often have been tempted to wish that there had been running down the sun-bleached bed of the Kedron a flashing stream, such as laved the rock-cut temples and tombs of Thebes. Expositions of Holy Scripture Isaiah and Jeremiah
As he approached the towers a salty breeze whipped against his skin, A few birds circled overhead, wheeling absently in fatigue above the barren lands.
The rest of Iceland is agricultural, rural, or wild - 80% of its barren land is unpopulated.
-- despiritualize me completely -- does it mean eventual barrenness, eventual remorse, failure? Flappers and Philosophers
Five minutes later he was plodding steadily ahead of his big Mackenzie hound into the peopleless barrens to the south and west. Philip Steele of the Royal Northwest mounted Police
Unraveled scrolls of ancient calligraphic writing cluttered the open floor, and watercolor tapestries of jungle temples hung on the otherwise barren wall.
The main alternative to the cattle cure of wastelands is hydroseeding, in which a machine sprays a mixture of seeds and fertilizer onto the barren soil.
By contrast, the modern day village is bleak, cold and almost barren of young people who have moved to the cities in search of work and a better life.
The title is in honour of Australia’s first female deputy Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, jibe from the enlightened Mr Heffernan – stating she was unfit for leadership because she was” deliberately barren”. Archive 2008-09-01
Gone the barren parking lots and notorious entrance halls of the banlieue. Mail and Guardian
The desert is barren land.
Late September is one of the best times for roadside botanizing in the Pine Barrens.
Before long, heavy drops of rain began to pour on the barren landscape.
As soon as they reached the barren badlands again, Nick landed quickly, releasing Sarah from his tight grip.
The Earth, sapless, bore no fruit; the seed lay barren for want of the rain.
Rolling hills, jagged rock barrens, steaming swamps, and dusty grey ashlands all appear crisp and clean to the eye and have an amazing amount of variety.
He considers that "at an uncertain period during the occupancy of the Lacies, the first principle of population" (in these forests) commenced; it was found that these wilds, bleak and barren as they were, might be occupied to some advantage in breeding young and depasturing lean Discovery of Witches The Wonderfull Discoverie of Witches in the Countie of Lancaster
EL ALTO, Bolivia — Tattered dummies look down on this city from street poles in barren squares, like scarecrows for anyone with bad intentions. The Wind From The South
The dusty barren ground was littered with piles of unburied corpses.
I'm voting Democrat because protecting barren wasteland is more important than energy independence. Transmitting History
The land is barren on the east coast.
We rode through farm country where fields stretched as far as I could see, but barren of the crops Willie and I used to see when we came South during the summertime.
He immediately rushed over to the area, which was in a barren part of the forest.
The barren trees were in tune with the sense of desolation all around.
He told her that barrenness is cured by the presence of immoderate heat in a woman accompanied by turgescence. Tales of Passion, Tales of Woe
She had conceived of a barren desolate waste, shrubless and treeless; and she saw grassy hillocks, leafy copses, and even, as she thought, patches of dwarfish woods. The Story of Ida Pfeiffer and Her Travels in Many Lands
About a mile behind and to the east of the village the hills commence, but they are very barren, being covered with scanty coarse grass and scattered trees of the Melaleuca cajuputi, from the leaves of which the celebrated cajeput oil is made. The Malay Archipelago
Farmers cannot afford these higher costs and consequently many paddy fields have not been cultivated for lengthy periods and have become barren lands.
The landscape was barren and featureless, a bruised mix of yellow earth and salted vineyards. Times, Sunday Times
He also wants to use the water to irrigate barren desert land.
The barren delusion called 'managerialism' may soon be defunct. Times, Sunday Times
Talmudists speak much, and hyperbolically enough: which nevertheless they confess to be turned long since into miserable barrenness; but are dim-sighted as to the true cause of it. From the Talmud and Hebraica
When we were dating, he assured me he wanted children. I've been in counseling for a year for depression. Please help me. - Barren in Boise.
It concentrates the mind when you are block calving because you sell all your barren cows in one go.
Yet Weil thought so poorly of her achievements she once identified herself with the barren fig tree Jesus cursed because it bore no fruit.
Ahead is a barren land of lochans and beautifully-ridged mountains rising steeply from an uninhabited wilderness.
The campus, which was once a barren patch of land, was converted into a haven for magpies and robins and blue jays in a short span of 30 years.
This species, typical of mesic to dry-mesic upland forests, has wind-dispersed seeds and evidently readily invades barrens.
For instance, in Genesis 29, Jacob is said to prefer Rachel to Leah, who is termed "unloved"; the verb for that is the same as the one being translated as "hate" in today's Gospel; but Jacob then went on to have seven children with Leah, while Rachel remained barren. Archive 2007-09-01
The barren land could produce little food.
But the barren landscape was wide open. Times, Sunday Times
Large icky evil things roam this godless barren waste after the moon rises.
Then canoe and bateau answered to the swift current of the Mackenzie, and they plunged into the Great Barren Ground. In a Far Country
The barren land could produce little food.
- A fragment (or xenolith) of well mineralized intrusive within barren granodiorite was observed in drill hole MX07-03; - Disseminated molybdenite has recently been observed in intrusive rocks at the 805 mine level, currently below the Z zone described previously; and, - Strong quartz stockwork with molybdenite in biotite hornfels has been observed adjacent to the Ethel zone (Drill Hole MX07-01). FinanzNachrichten.de: Aktuelle Nachrichten
Families and guests enjoyed the views of Sydney harbour and coastline as the ship steamed for Broken Bay, positioning at the starting line off Barrenjoey Head.
They perform side-by-side on a barren stage with the beats played by a preprogrammed drum machine.
Four hours had passed, and barren mountain after barren mountain still lay ahead, the only sign of human habitation being a couple of tiny isolated dwellings.
What's left behind are new surfaces: kettle moraines, outwash plains, pingos, scoured barren grounds.
To the right and left the barren mountains reared their enormous baldness to the sun, deserts raised up broadside, as it were, and set on end, that their bareness might be the better seen and known to the world around. Taquisara
The industry in 'artificial silks' or 'lustra-celluloses,' by the collodion processes also, whilst presenting features of unusual interest attaching to rapid expansion, has been barren of contribution of fundamental scientific or technical importance. Researches on Cellulose 1895-1900
A barren fig tree takes up valuable garden space and nutrients that fruitful trees can use.
But I went alone, reassured in the north by the desert, the barrenness interrupted by the stolid saguaro, the gnarled creosote. The Right Thing
All six played a part, in helping the county end a barren nine-year spell without Liam McCarthy.
But everyone exploits its use, until that time certain when it becomes soiled and haggard, barren of its previous virtues.
He lives in the lonely lands where mighty rivers twist in long reaches between the barren bluffs; where the prairies stretch out into billowy plains of waving grass, girt only by the blue horizon, plains across whose endless breadth he can steer his course for days and weeks and see neither man to speak to nor hill to break the level; where the glory and the burning splendor of the sunsets kindle the blue vault of heaven and the level brown earth till they merge together in an ocean of flaming fire. Frontier Types
Suddenly I was on the barren playas of Tierra del Fuego, the broiling ground belching huge clouds of sulfurous gases into the heavy atmosphere.
Three hours in the rain is all it took to transform this uninspiring, barren plot into a pleasing eye-catcher. The Sun
Presently, he handselled peace for himself here by marriage with my mother, the daughter of a great Scots lord of the lands; and thereafter had built the hall, and made the haven, and won a few fields from the once barren hillside. A Sea Queen's Sailing
Before her stretched hillside after barren hillside of jagged dry stubble, testimony of a generation of in tensive fir and cedar harvesting. Kate
The sights are breathtaking, ranging from lush apple and cherry orchards to barren mountain passes. The Sun
On the most barren parts of these hills, there springs a tree which the Indians call _guisachel_; it resembles the savine, and produces a berry of which ink is made. Life in Mexico
Quite unlike today's northern barrens, it combined Arctic tundra with fertile loess soil and low latitudes the Eurasian tundra belt having been pushed far to the south by the Scandinavian icecap.
Revenge is a film barren of much development, as it feels like nothing more than a bunch of independent scenes cobbled together.
A few years more of this honeymoon with free power will render many areas in Punjab and elsewhere barren.
And yet even with nothing but a future looming with gloomy forebodings, they repopulated the barren wasteland of space, bracing for the worst, testing the extents of their tenacity and ingenuity.
Indeed, he mounts a mild harangue against the temperance movement, which he argues ‘may preach till doom's day; and still this cold and barren world will look warmer, kindlier, mellower, through the medium of a toper's glass’.
Now, of course their are material resources to be had in Gaul, and this provides a reason for conquest - for who wants to conquer a barren land?
It opens up windows on our society, our selves, and our barren ideas.
Suddenly I was on the barren playas of Tierra del Fuego, the broiling ground belching huge clouds of sulfurous gases into the heavy atmosphere.
They included pictures of terrified young men piled into the back of lorries and driven to a barren patch of land. Times, Sunday Times
The dried, hardened remains of the lahar persist today, a streak of barren rock on a landscape that is otherwise richly vegetated.
Your word assures me that you bless the fruit of my womb and that neither myself nor my husband shall be barren.
Barren was the porkchopper’s porkchopper, the West Florida Machiavel who ran the Senate—and thus the state—for decades. Dream State
Since that land would not be totally barren or completely isolated, it would yield some product.
It only comes out at the outskirts of the land where the barren wasteland ends and things begin to grow again.
It was there that he saw how extensively elephant dung was used as agricultural fertilizer to nourish the otherwise barren land.
On the outside, the town was charred, scorched, and barren.
Hundreds of acres of agricultural land have been rendered barren for want of water.
Thou wert feverish and impatient this morning until thou wert fairly in it, with its mud and water plashing around thee; and now thou art here, with the trees crowding upon us so thickly that the sun looks not under them once in the whole year, thou creepest like a terapin upon thy journey, as if thou didst greatly fear thou wouldst too quickly get through it; a barren fear, this, for we see but the beginning: the bog deepens, and the day grows darker as we go. The Partisan: A Tale of the Revolution. By the Author of "The Yemassee," "Guy Rivers," &c. In Two Volumes. Vol. I
I was immediately struck with the resemblance of those organs, called ramenta, to what are fairly assumed to be the male bodies, in certain other families of the same grand division; and I at once came to the conclusion, that the barren fronds, were barren, because almost destitute of these ramenta; and that as these ramenta were confined to the base of the stalk, that is, to the part below its first ramification, an obvious necessity existed for the peculiar nature of the vernation. Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries
He felt a jealous chagrin as he watched them follow her into the church, an anger that she dared to trample upon him that way, a fierce desire to get away and quaff the cup of admiration at the hand of some of his own friends, or to quaff some cup, _any_ cup, for he was thirsty, thirsty, _thirsty_, and this was a dry and barren land. The City of Fire
Place becomes meaningless space; time is unmeasured, barren. The Times Literary Supplement
From Duck River, south, the country is rough, with rocky ranges of hills, which divide the "barrens" from the fertile parts of Middle Tennessee. The Army of the Cumberland
You don't mention if your walkway is in the sun or shade, so here are some varieties for each: I like all of the barrenworts for edging in shade, but Epimedium youngianum stays somewhat smaller than the rest.
As it stands, this site is barren of all such annoyances.
Serpentinite barrens are visible on both sides of the Staten Island Expressway where bedrock was exposed when new roads were cut during the mid-1960s.
We clamber up over rocks onto a barren, boulder-strewn moonscape where we pick up speed.
Call it rather a sort of beggarly day-dreaming, during which the mind of the dreamer furnishes for itself nothing but laziness, and a little mawkish sensibility; while the whole materiel and imagery of the doze is supplied ab extra by a sort of mental camera obscura manufactured at the printing office, which pro tempore fixes, reflects, and transmits the moving phantasms of one mans delirium, so as to people the barrenness of a hundred other brains afflicted with the same trance or suspension of all common sense and all definite purpose. Coleridge, Biographia Literaria, III footnote 1 « Unknowing
He also wants to use the water to irrigate barren desert land.
Suddenly I was on the barren playas of Tierra del Fuego, the broiling ground belching huge clouds of sulfurous gases into the heavy atmosphere.
Bicolor barrenwort is one of the earliest to bloom.
From now 'til Tuesday I'll be in a barren netless netherworld unable to communicate with my Internet pals. Spring Holiday Hiatus of Horror!
The aggressor becomes the victim, the city becomes a barren planet. Times, Sunday Times
He then received a pass from Gaul and belted a ball towards an apparently barren goal only to see Christy Kealy appear to divert it out the field.
The day before was spent crossing the barren, lifeless Dasht-i-Kavir. The Agonist - thoughtful, global, timely
All was one impenetrable desert; ... the vegetation on this part of the country was reduced to a few stunted gums, hakea bushes, and Triodia (spinifex), the whole extremely barren in appearance ... Spinifex and Sand
Trumpets are found in bogs and in wet pine barrens.
Alex looked up from the barren flower bed and noticed a woman standing by the forest waving her arms and calling out to him.
Virtually no other plants, except for those which need no water, can grow in such soil and the underground progress of the truffle mycelium can be charted by the spread of this barren ground.
We can spend our lives dallying in false advertising and slick brochures about barren land and cheap trinkets and never for a moment wince at the dishonesty of it.
Judea admits of a high state of cultivation, and requires it, in order to be productive; its present barrenness is due to neglect. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
Even on a late February afternoon, spring flowers were already well in evidence, especially butterbur, coltsfoot, dog's mercury, barren strawberry and even the odd primrose.
Cherry and pear trees laden with fruit can become barren overnight when jackdaws decide to strike.
Even the barren quarasote plains of the stead, under the Aerlal Plateau, held far more living creatures. Darkness
barren lands
I am not wholly barren of hope, for circumstances have been dealing the conventional wisdom a new series of heavy blows.
Cruelly punning, he calls his baroness ‘Barrenness’.
Even if they loved each other very much, a man would be forced to divorce a barren wife due to the pressure from his own family.
And for its value and utility it must be plainly avowed that that wisdom which we have derived principally from the Greeks is but like the boyhood of knowledge, and has the characteristic property of boys: it can talk, but it cannot generate, for it is fruitful of controversies but barren of works. The Great Instauration
I was rummaging through my pocket in search of airsickness pills and looking down at the barren brownish plain, only occasionally dissected with dirt tracks.
She became very depressed during the barren years when she was unable to paint.
In much of the North American literature, ‘polar desert’ refers to a vegetation type rather than a bioclimatic zone, i.e., to barren areas.
Most of the islands are semi-desert, and the landscape can be spectacularly barren. Times, Sunday Times
Now, much of the so-called barrenness of country life is the oak minus the polish. Chapters in Rural Progress
They encompass 2,400 square miles of wooded mountains, high-elevation bogs and pine barrens, replete with winding rivers and spectacular waterfalls.
Babystars, fleabane, and the aptly name fireweed, post-fire denizens of the vegetation world, had already sprouted and were laying claim to the barren slopes. News Review - Top Stories
What had promised to be a cozy stop for the night proved to be a wide, barren space with a few buildings forming a ring around the well and only a few unwelcoming people to populate it.
Hier, the sky was bright in patches and the sun shone down across the barren field below and cast clouds across the campagne. French Word-A-Day:
We have on our side of the line large areas that are barren that were formerly covered with trees, and, reforestation is one means, Mr. Chairman, that Canada and its government can take toward replenishing the water supply of the Great Lakes, and thousands and thousands of men could be put to work at that, here, on this side of the line, as they are doing on the other side of the line. The Disastrous Depletion of The Great Lakes
Outside the city, loggers have denuded the mountain slopes of their thick forests, and millions of sheep, goats, and yaks have left lush pastures rutted and barren.
Much of it is composed of rugged, tall mountain chains and wide expanses of barren desert-like plains.
There are many finer valleys than this in Asben, and were the trees not preserved, it would be a very barren, unlively spot. Narrative of a Mission to Central Africa Performed in the Years 1850-51, Volume 2 Under the Orders and at the Expense of Her Majesty's Government
Deeper into the barren city the polished buildings turn to dirty, smudged, rock-like towers, looking as if they were carved roughly out of stone.
The gardens were desolated and barren, and white snow flurried out of the air from incoming clouds, frosting everything it touched.
It must be confessed, however, that the field of English slang verse and canting song, though not altogether barren, has yet small claim to the idiomatic and plastic treatment that obtains in many an _Argot - song_ and _Germania-romance; _ in truth, with a few notable exceptions, there is little in the present collection that can claim literary rank. Musa Pedestris - Three Centuries of Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes [1536 - 1896]
The pioneer work done by the kinnikinick on a barren and rocky realm has often resulted in the establishment of a flourishing forest there. Wild Life on the Rockies
Such a barren desert can support very few creatures.
Sprawl and malls are filling in the vacant lots and woodlands where we used to play; rivers and streams are culverted, channelized, and barren; and the coasts, lakesides, and mountains are spotted with trophy homes and locked gates.
The lake in the center is called Koko Nor, and the Qaidam Desert is the large barren area just below the center left of the photograph, about 400 km west of Koko Nor. A Project for the Dendro Truth Squad « Climate Audit
‘Marched 32 miles over rough barren country destitute of both water and grass,’ Wright recorded that day.
I walked along the barren lands as the sun parched my skin.
The sediments of the Grensen Formation are barren of all organic material and hence must be dated using radiometric and petrographic evidence alone.
The second thing they must guess/assess is their faith in you to do accomplish something of a similar magnitude to the comps, generally expressed as a percentage. posted by redbarren at 6: 27 PM Investing in Badly Dressed People.
After exploring gentle mountain slopes, taiga flatland and highland barrens, we suddenly reached the plateau's edge.
On the outside, the town was charred, scorched, and barren.
The trees are barren and it is a time when the birds are likely to be most vocal, just before mating season.
It was especially disconcerting to watch my wife being rolled into the gapping mouth of a machine centrally located in an otherwise barren room. Paul Kerr: My Beautiful Bald Wife
One of the many items my so-censored biograph left out was that my only child died a-borning, from his mother's womb untimely ripped, ripping it and rendering her completely barren. The Ship Who Sang
It would tell her how to place the crablike feet for safety and speed, how to search recesses of the barren land for little wisps of sustenance or water. Songs of Love & Death
However, through the core of the barrens a headwind-driven flame reached a height of one to 1.5 meters and ascended some small shrubs, saplings, and standing-dead trees.
The ground is frozen, the trees barren and the wind raw, and our thoughts have turned to cycling.
Vassell has recently returned to form after a barren spell with Aston Villa, while Alan Smith, for this writer at least, has failed to hit the heights of the past in an admittedly abject Leeds side.
The 40-year-old's Singapore success ends a barren spell for the Ryder Cup star.
Thousands of years ago the surface was barren desert.
Here in one place there rises a barren rock, perfectly bare of verdure, which is called Mount Misery. Cord and Creese
He had ridden past a tiny, partly caved-in dugout, months ago, where some wandering prospector had camped while he braved the barrenness of the hills and streams hereabout. The Ranch at the Wolverine
Then the Air Force, realizing the barrens was a difficult part of the country to operate in and the planes quite largely avoided it before the war, and the distances were very great and as they were using mainly wheeled aircraft they had to drop their supplies, and fly seven hundred miles in and back and the 1,400 miles was quite a long flight. Exercise Muskox
Their delivery into the world will be a defiant affirmation of life in this remote and barren desert. Times, Sunday Times
It's a difficult place to be - the desert is incredibly barren and dusty. The Sun
They wanted to leave this barren place as soon as they could.
Interesting commentaries pepper our journey through this barren landscape. Times, Sunday Times
The landscape is scarred with great lumps of lava, volcanic plugs and long screes of volcanic soil, and there is also a vast barren sandy valley.
So if prepared foods are actually bland and nutritionally barren, what do they have going for them?
Thousands of years ago the surface was barren desert.
Consequently the barren noblewoman of the tale is quick to rush to judgment against her fruitful neighbor.
Sometimes seeds were simply broadcast in the wind over barren areas.
The Korean sod is ecologically barren, and who wants more lawn, really? GREEN ROOF TILES by Toyota Roof Garden | Inhabitat
A land that wears a laurel crown may be fair to see; but twine a few sad cypress leaves around the brow of any land, and be that land barren, beautiless and bleak, it becomes lovely in its consecrated coronet of sorrow, and it wins the sympathy of the heart and of history. Father Ryan's Poems.
Gregory turned from his parents' grave and walked back through and out of the barren house to his horse, the animal waiting patiently on its tether and barely visible against the forest shadows.
Without their kind the musical world would be an extremely barren place.
Yet say that sort of Englishmen where of I told you, that is puny and sore adread, that the Lond is poisonous and barren and of no avail, for that Lond is much more hotter than it is here. Letters to Dead Authors
Unlike the previous years when the city's skyline used to be dotted with huge cut-outs of leaders, walls pasted with bills and streets littered with notices of various parties, they look barren still.
And he surmised that another term, "the Camp," used to describe the archipelago's barren expanses, is derived from the Spanish word "campo," for countryside. NYT > Home Page
Monument Valley's far too wild ever to have been part of the history of American interior colonisation - it is barren, untamable; that's why it was made into a reservation.
The show (the first of five summer bazaars) also offers the opportunity to buy real art for barren walls and empty mantels.
Although they seem barren, the flat rock outcrops, known as pavement rock, support some lichens and mosses.
In a matter of minutes, the hallway is not barren and lonely; it teems with life and sound.
Nay I myself, am I the worse for being of a feeble order of intelligence; what the irreverent speculative, world calls barren, red-tapish, limited, and even intrinsically dark and small, and if it must be said, stupid? Latter-Day Pamphlets
If we be barren and unfruitful towards God, justly is the earth made so to us. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
The Hill Country along South Mopac is remarkably barren of all-night food joints.
Other members of the group then presented the landowners with various tokens of appreciation, including passes to the Tennessee Aquarium and a framed print of the Barrens topminnow by a renowned fish illustrator.
Babylon's aggression is portrayed as a hot wind that will blow across Judah, rendering fruitful land barren and laying waste to cities.
It is said that this area was barren in its early beginnings, but its founder, Osho, cultivated it to become a viable territory.
That leaner and blanker style would define his work thereafter, reaching an almost brutal, Albert Speer-like barrenness in the Federal Reserve Board Building, and the tower he built for the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda. Architecture: Comparing Paul Philippe Cret and John Carl Warnecke
We see the packed profusion of exotic narratives give way to the barren emptiness of unpeopled landscapes. Times, Sunday Times
There are solitary rock-columns that spring straight up out of the water and dark grottoes with narrow entrances; there are barren, perpendicular precipices, and soft, leaf-clad inclines; there are small points, and small inlets, and small rolling stones that are rattlingly washed up and down with every dashing breaker; there are majestic cliff-arches which project over the water; there are sharp stones that are constantly being sprayed by a white foam; and others that mirror themselves in unchangeable dark-green still water. The Wonderful Adventures of Nils
That was when I saw Benny Fritch, running behind a copse of barren hackberry trees. Kings of Colorado
· As a result of uncontrolled hunting the wild yak is endangered and is now restricted to remote barrens on upland plateaus and highlands in northern Tibet and Chinghai, inhospitable even to domestic yaks. 1 Domesticated Banteng
This can lead to humorous variations, such as buffing someone with Underwater Breathing in the middle of the Barrens. Civicus
Left barren by fires, the mountaintop reflected winter moonlight.
Today, these areas are dominated by cropland and pastureland and the historic "barrens" are nearly extinct. Ecoregions of Kentucky (EPA)
The 22 tiny patches of Martian surface revealed a barren landscape pitted with craters, like the Moon.
Vehicles churned up billowing clouds of dust as they drove through a barren landscape of cracked land dotted with green clumps of grass.
With it went the myth that the modern game must be a barren wasteland of aerial ping pong, interspersed with sporadic outbursts of pick and drive. Times, Sunday Times

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