How to Use barren in a Sentence

barren

adjective

• The book was good, but I found the barren lives of the characters depressing.
• Few creatures can thrive on these barren mountaintops.
• The last climb of the day up the barren walls of the Izoard is a back-breaker.
  — Bob Ford, Philly.com, 19 July 2017
• The secret to life in this barren place are the sand rivers.
  — Stanley Stewart, Condé Nast Traveler, 21 Dec. 2018
• The Gulch was a cut-through, just a street that was barren.
  — Chuck Dauphin, Billboard, 14 June 2018
• Weeds and brush had broken up the most barren parts of the plot.
  — Alexander Sammon, The New Republic, 16 Feb. 2022
• Much of the land there is bare, though not quite barren.
  — oregonlive, 30 Aug. 2020
• A month ago, the world was all brown grass and bare trees and barren ground.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 29 Apr. 2021
• The ground, brown and barren after the storm, had turned green again.
  — Philly.com, 5 Nov. 2017
• The otters and trout vanished from the creek; deer fled the barren fields.
  — Sarah Kaplan, chicagotribune.com, 11 Sep. 2019
• The kindness of strangers who bring trees and gifts to light up barren rooms.
  — Rex Huppke, chicagotribune.com, 24 Dec. 2020
• Just then, Oyama-san stops the car and points up to a barren tree.
  — Adam H. Graham, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 Oct. 2018
• Men knelt for evening prayer on straw mats in a barren field.
  — Sima Diab, Washington Post, 10 Sep. 2023
• These features were formed when the area was a barren desert.
  — Richard Mason, Arkansas Online, 23 May 2021
• High up in the Andes Mountains, the world is a barren mix of rock, snow and ice.
  — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Oct. 2023
• The empty streets, the barren lawns: Talk about brutal.
  — Alexander Nazaryan, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2024
• In the middle of the barren Nevada desert, there’s a dusty unmarked road that leads to the front gate of Area 51.
  — Matt Blitz, Popular Mechanics, 23 Mar. 2023
• But that’s not to say the milk section at any of these stores was barren, by any means.
  — Andy Meek, BGR, 25 Jan. 2022
• Palm groves that date back more than 100 years are barren.
  — Arkansas Online, 31 Dec. 2022
• The trees were dropped in six locations where the lake floor was barren.
  — Lindsey Botts, The Arizona Republic, 15 Jan. 2022
• The maple- and oak-lined banks turned green — then yellow and orange and red — and then barren again.
  — Hanna Krueger, BostonGlobe.com, 17 May 2023
• The black stumps of willow bushes jutted out of the barren ground.
  — The New Yorker, 8 Nov. 2021
• In just two hours, the once-green hillside was reduced to barren trees and ash.
  — Hayley Smith, Los Angeles Times, 27 July 2021
• One year ago, these streets were a barren landscape of fear.
  — Los Angeles Times, 14 Feb. 2021
• While the leaves are green and plentiful on other trees in the park, the beech tree is barren.
  — Alysa Guffey, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Aug. 2023
• The power and volume rocker sit on the top-right side, while the left is barren.
  — Jacob Krol, CNN Underscored, 30 July 2020
• If there is a barren tree in your front yard, cut it down and replace it with grass.
  — Bill Jordan, Dallas News, 28 Mar. 2021
• My wife stood in a yard now barren of trees and wondered where all her birds had gone.
  — Southern Living, 1 May 2017
• The scale of the project transforming swathes of barren salt desert on the edge of western India into one of the most important sources of clean energy anywhere on the planet is so overwhelming that the man in charge can’t keep up.
  — Diksha Madhok, CNN, 20 Mar. 2024
• Parts of Greenland’s ice sheet and glaciers that melted over the past three decades have been replaced by wetlands, shrub vegetation and areas of barren rock, according to a new study that used satellite images to track changes since the 1980s.
  — Denise Chow, NBC News, 13 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024