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Example sentences for: barren

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

Continue through the barren wastes until you reach the tourist pavilion, where you can stock up on necessities such as water and snacks.
(Britain's war with Argentina over a few barren islands, which Thatcher prosecuted with the zeal of a Churchill, has been compared to two bald men fighting over a comb.)
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.
Betancuria, by far the most attractive and visited inland town on the island, is an oasis of greenery on this barren island.
Immediately north of Maó is the Cap de Favàrritx, a barren cape with a lighthouse.