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Sentence example with the word 'barren'
barren
abortive, colorless, dusty, gainless, inoperative, nonprolific, poor, sucked dry, unoriginal, vain
Definition
adj.
providing no shelter or sustenance
Last update: December 17, 2016
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In a country where much of the land is
barren
desert, water is a precious natural resource.
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To all appearances, the shore was
barren
and uninhabited.
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There is no desert so
barren
, no mountains so bleak, no woods so wild that to those who dwell therein their home is not beautiful.
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A
barren
land, bare waste.
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We can not use
barren
for producing any crops.
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Then a
barren
mountain side presented itself, three or four miles of it, with no shelter.
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The hills are not rocky and
barren
, but are cultivated to their very tops.
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Few cretures can thrive on these
barren
mountain tops.
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All the rest of the coast is so hard and
barren
, and covered with chalk instead of grass, and the shore so straight and staring.
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