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
• If there is a barren tree in your front yard, cut it down and replace it with grass.
  — Bobbie Johnson, President, star-telegram.com, 30 Apr. 2017
• In the midst of barren rock spires and deep canyon walls, greenery sprouts around serene springs and wetlands.
  — AZCentral.com, 18 Aug. 2021

Last Updated: 9 May 2024