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Example sentences for: barren

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The sites chosen for rural camposantos were often on tierra muerta, barren land that was too poor to cultivate.
Terrified children are running down a hellish highway that disappears behind them into a smoky vanishing point, a highway that seems to run through a barren and burning plain.
The barren and wild Parque Natural de Montesinho lies between Bragança and Spain, and is home to a number of small, isolated villages that have striven to keep up their traditions of communal ownership and pre-Christian ritual.
It was quite barren in Nebraska, wherever Nebraska was, four billion years ago.
As the road rises, the rugged countryside becomes spectacularly barren, though plunging volcanic hillsides have been softened and greened by time.