Example sentences for: barren

How can you use “barren” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Coetzee, the Booker Prize-winning white South African novelist and author of Waiting for the Barbarians (1980) and Life & Times of Michael K (1983), tells of barren spaces.

  • But it is well worth a visit to the top (a short hike from the bus stop) to peer down into the bleak, barren crater emitting puffs of sulfurous fumes and contrasting starkly with the colorful vegetation all around it.

  • In good weather, hikers are drawn to its remote and barren character.

  • As the road rises, the rugged countryside becomes spectacularly barren, though plunging volcanic hillsides have been softened and greened by time.

  • Immediately north of Maó is the Cap de Favàrritx, a barren cape with a lighthouse.


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