How to Use barren in a Sentence

barren

adjective
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  • The book was good, but I found the barren lives of the characters depressing.
  • Few creatures can thrive on these barren mountaintops.
  • The secret to life in this barren place are the sand rivers.
    — Stanley Stewart, Condé Nast Traveler, 21 Dec. 2018
  • Weeds and brush had broken up the most barren parts of the plot.
    — Alexander Sammon, The New Republic, 16 Feb. 2022
  • Much of the land there is bare, though not quite barren.
    — oregonlive, 30 Aug. 2020
  • A month ago, the world was all brown grass and bare trees and barren ground.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 29 Apr. 2021
  • Men knelt for evening prayer on straw mats in a barren field.
    — Sima Diab, Washington Post, 10 Sep. 2023
  • The last climb of the day up the barren walls of the Izoard is a back-breaker.
    — Bob Ford, Philly.com, 19 July 2017
  • The kindness of strangers who bring trees and gifts to light up barren rooms.
    — Rex Huppke, chicagotribune.com, 24 Dec. 2020
  • These features were formed when the area was a barren desert.
    — Richard Mason, Arkansas Online, 23 May 2021
  • The otters and trout vanished from the creek; deer fled the barren fields.
    — Sarah Kaplan, chicagotribune.com, 11 Sep. 2019
  • The ground, brown and barren after the storm, had turned green again.
    — Philly.com, 5 Nov. 2017
  • The Gulch was a cut-through, just a street that was barren.
    — Chuck Dauphin, Billboard, 14 June 2018
  • The trees were dropped in six locations where the lake floor was barren.
    — Lindsey Botts, The Arizona Republic, 15 Jan. 2022
  • The black stumps of willow bushes jutted out of the barren ground.
    — The New Yorker, 8 Nov. 2021
  • My wife stood in a yard now barren of trees and wondered where all her birds had gone.
    — Southern Living, 1 May 2017
  • One year ago, these streets were a barren landscape of fear.
    — Los Angeles Times, 14 Feb. 2021
  • My wife stood in a yard now barren of trees and wondered where all her birds had gone.
    — Southern Living, 15 Mar. 2012
  • The accord brought to a close two decades of pointless conflict over a scrap of barren land.
    — The Economist, 19 Oct. 2019
  • If there is a barren tree in your front yard, cut it down and replace it with grass.
    — Bill Jordan, Dallas News, 28 Mar. 2021
  • Fire burned so hot that soil was still barren in places more than a year later.
    — Brian Melley, Fortune, 26 Oct. 2023
  • Just then, Oyama-san stops the car and points up to a barren tree.
    — Adam H. Graham, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 Oct. 2018
  • If there is a barren tree in your front yard, cut it down and replace it with grass.
    — Bobbie Johnson, President, star-telegram.com, 30 Apr. 2017
  • The moon is a dry and barren place, utterly devoid of life.
    — Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 24 July 2018
  • But that’s not to say the milk section at any of these stores was barren, by any means.
    — Andy Meek, BGR, 25 Jan. 2022
  • The farmer stands in front of his barren field, dotted with stunted cumin plants.
    — Popular Science, 7 June 2020
  • Three hangars and the first layers of a runway command a sandy, barren field.
    — Washington Post, 23 Apr. 2018
  • In just two hours, the once-green hillside was reduced to barren trees and ash.
    — Hayley Smith, Los Angeles Times, 27 July 2021
  • In the midst of barren rock spires and deep canyon walls, greenery sprouts around serene springs and wetlands.
    — AZCentral.com, 18 Aug. 2021
  • The power and volume rocker sit on the top-right side, while the left is barren.
    — Jacob Krol, CNN Underscored, 30 July 2020

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