Sentence examples for barren from high-quality English sources.

• Sexually on fire, but fucking barren.

• The scenery is barren, but strangely beautiful.

• Any barren region that supports very little life may be called a desert.

• New ground formed by eruptions in the 1950s and 1960s is still visibly barren.

• Between low, isolated mountain ranges are broad expanses of barren desert.

• “Though unsatisfactory, my research has not been entirely barren,” he observed, staring up at the ceiling with dreamy, lack-lustre eyes.

• Some of the customers were "women who are barren, so for them this is a kind of adoption," she said, but "some use them for sacrifices".

• Elsewhere, crumbling concrete structures, warped tarmac roads and abandoned construction and military equipment dotted the barren landscape.

Use barren in a sentence.

• People assumed that Eliot was sexually infatuated, but, considering the entirety of his romantic history (fairly barren), this doesn’t seem the most likely explanation.

• "Warzone" requires players to think tactically about where they're going, to watch every window for movement, and to take vehicles across long, barren stretches with little cover.

• Not only should barren spaces be converted into green and productive plots, it’s also important that there are connections between these environments to help wildlife move between them.

• Next summer's European Championship will be Wales' second in succession, a remarkable transformation for a country which had to endure 58 barren years between its first appearance at a major tournament, the 1958 World Cup, and its second at Euro 2016.

• Many Australians don’t realise that the land near modern Melbourne once resembled, as Tim Flannery puts it, “a temperate Kakadu”, in which a shockingly blue lake teemed with swans, ducks, brolgas, magpie-geese, Cape Barren geese and other migratory birds.

• Invoke then the master spirit of the earth, to come into your midst and sanctify the scales and the reckoning that weighs value against value. 44And suffer not the barren-handed to take part in your transactions, who would sell their words for your labour.

• Lush underwater forests of large brown seaweeds (kelps) are particularly striking in the Arctic, especially in contrast to the land where ice scour (scraping of sea ice against the sea floor) and harsh climates leave the ground barren with little vegetation.

• “Barren mountainsides like the ones in Parwan lead to rainwater flowing rapidly, resulting in the destruction of soil and causing floods,” says Jalaludin Naseri, director of national heritage protection at Afghanistan’s National Environmental Protection Agency.

barren sentence examples

• Supporters and rivals alike agree that she has upended the traditional rules of engagement on Capitol Hill with a millennial’s intuitive sense of what sells online — all before she has hung anything on her barren office walls or even found a permanent place to live.

• Gardner and Kries then suggest taking the newly reinstated local train from Trieste to Ljubljana – a spectacular journey through barren limestone landscapes from Italy to the Slovenian capital – before making tracks north for Vienna – definitely worth a couple of nights.

• Climate change created unprecedented conditions for the locusts to breed in the usually barren desert of the Arabian gulf, according to experts, and the insects were then able to spread through Yemen, where civil war has devastated the ability to control locust populations.

• The focus for this community became Cape Barren Island, on which in 1881 a reserve was established for “half-castes,” the official designation for mixed-race individuals, who were discriminated against even as their Aboriginal identity was negated (the Cape Barren Island Reserve Act of 1912 , for example, identified the islanders as a distinct people requiring special regulation by the government but did not recognize them as Aboriginal people).