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122 examples of Barren in a sentence

And he had a dream that he would build a housing community on this barren piece of land using patient capital, but he continued to pay a price.
I was on my bike, pushing up what seemed like a never-ending barren hill.
This is a rugged and barren landscape, yet there are quite a few spiders here.
But what Galileo saw was a rocky, barren world, which he expressed through his watercolor painting.
What we are trying to do is to come up with a single species that can survive anywhere in the world, where there's barren desert.
How about this: In sub-Saharan Africa, next to the sea, saltwater, barren desert, how about we take that plant, plant it, half use for food, half use for fuel.
Now, re-wilding is moving faster in Korea than it is in America, and so the plan is, with these re-wilded areas all over Europe, they will introduce the aurochs to do its old job, its old ecological role, of clearing the somewhat barren, closed-canopy forest so that it has these biodiverse meadows in it.
What had been an underwater barren was now a kaleidoscope of life and color.
A barren landscape, like much of our seas today, or an abundance of life, our legacy to the future?
And this sandy wasteland had lain barren for 10 years, and we were told, unless we found a developer in six months, it would go bankrupt.
And barren.
She talks with the women and explains that the land is barren because they have cut and sold the trees.
Now, when you go back home, if you see a barren piece of land, do remember that it can be a potential forest.
But despite high hopes, the LHC revealed a barren subatomic wilderness populated only by a lonely Higgs boson.
And they sentenced him to life imprisonment on the aptly named Devil's Island, which is this barren rock off the coast of South America.
I did notice the barren shops in Wagner, South Dakota, and the VFW gathering hall that stood in mockery of a community's dream to endure.
We went and found these incredible clam beds sitting on the barren rock.
The once beautiful city has fallen to pieces, the countryside barren, the farms abandoned.
So one day, I sat down to brainstorm, as you do, and I came up barren.
In this barren world, Montag learns how difficult it is to resist when there's nothing left to hold on to.
But he’s since become their slave, and rants with furious regret: “And then I loved thee,/ And showed thee all the qualities o’ th’ isle/ The fresh springs, brine pits, barren place and fertile./
It’s pretty barren.
Fungi married algae ... clinging to rock, and eating it too ... transforming barren land.
So what I've been discussing is, the seven and a half billion people in the world don't actually deserve to have their environment smashed by plastic, their oceans rendered depauperate or barren of sea life because of plastic.
Not having resources, not having looks, not having finances can often be the barren soil from which the most productive seeds are painstakingly plowed and harvested.
Without Parvati, the land became dry and barren.
And her mother, Demeter, goddess of the earth, is sad, and makes it cold and barren.
Very disappointing, since it fails to catch any of the flavor or beauty of the island - just the hot, dry, and barren elements.
Instead of being set in the barren deserts of Arabia, it is set in the bulging metropolis of New York City.
And while this film is almost barren in regards to good storytelling, Lady Frankenstein does oddly have some aspects which make it watchable - not highly watchable but watchable nonetheless.
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