Examples of 'barren' in a sentence

Meaning of "barren"

barren (adjective) - Barren is an adjective used to describe land that is unable to produce crops or sustain life, typically due to lack of fertility, water, or vegetation. It can also be applied metaphorically to describe an area or situation that is unproductive or devoid of creativity
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  • Unable to bear children; sterile.
  • Of poor fertility, infertile; not producing vegetation.
  • Bleak.
  • Unproductive; fruitless; unprofitable; empty.

How to use "barren" in a sentence

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On the barren mountains let him starve.
And soon turned it into a barren wasteland.
My mind is as barren as the surface of the moon.
I had begun to despair of our barren valley.
In the barren desert that is this land.
That she was struck with a barren womb.
A barren woman can not be a true wife.
His search begins in a barren blacktop wasteland.
The barren or sterile doe always leads.
The land was barren and lifeless.
Faith and goodness can not be barren.
Ours was a barren planet of dust and rock.
The land surrounding the mountain is barren.
They faced a barren and inhospitable desert.
Most of the planet is actually pretty barren.

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You are barren or sterile or shooting blanks or whatever.
The expedition colonized a barren rock of a planetoid.
But two barren daughters in one household.
Never keep such nice bodies barren.
You live a barren life in a prison of fear.
You say that because you are barren.
It is barren and rocky with little or no vegetation.
So these remote worlds are cold and barren.
On more barren fields cereal is also produced.
I just found out officially barren as a brick.
The barren fields will ripen again.
Even art does not like a barren art.
He searched the barren island for water.
You hate them because you are barren.
Deadgate is the barren realm of the dead.
The story took place in a barren land.
Through this barren desert in search of truth.
We took him from the barren planet.
And we are barren and bereft of friends.
Your head looks like a barren land.
He led us to this barren land and now he betrays us.
Wellbeing amid ugliness is but a barren postulate.
The young barren camels are abandoned.
But all they get is barren soil.
One barren of loyalty and feeling.
There is no water along these barren slopes.
The night seems barren like a black dagger.
Earth would be a dry and barren rock.
Barren mountain banks interrupt the wide plains.
Even the trees barren of their leaves.
Natural disasters left the land barren.
Our soil has been barren for years.
The hills were already abundantly barren.
The prison is set in a barren coastal area.
Because higher up it will get increasingly barren.

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