Sentence examples for Barren from inspiring English sources

With eyes watering in the sharp wind, it was a relief to shelter under a high bank by the river, where dog violet, barren strawberry and thyme clung to the crumbly debris.

Therefore, he can "capture everything from the beach to the pine barren woods that fill New Jersey to the majestic skyscrapers of New York".

Related: California drought brings sound of silence to baked, barren farms In California's second-largest city, memories are still fresh of a devastating drought 25 years ago that saw the area's water supplies slashed by about a third.

After living on the ice for two months, the crew sailed their lifeboats to the small and barren Elephant Island, before risking their lives navigating a further 800 nautical miles to the South Georgia whaling stations to find help.

Instead, the best views are from the Jeddah-Mecca Highway, where the clocktower appears to rear out of the barren landscape in such an outlandish fashion it looks as if it has been drawn on to the skyline.

Northern Chile's barren and beautiful Atacama desert, one of the most arid places on the planet, seems an unlikely place to have interesting menus, let alone abundant and fresh ingredients.

Such a barren run made some players appreciate the bye last weekend, while others have been champing at the bit for a chance at righting the ship.

The school has a barren compound, which means the school buildings have little protection from heavy storms.

Scenes of deprivation on a barren mountaintop galvanised a US-driven international response and led to air strikes against jihadist positions on either side of the 72km (45-mile) ridge.

(In 1966, the district's mixed race population were forced out of their homes and relocated to the barren Cape Flats).

Landlocked and increasingly barren due to climate change, Chad is also straining to accommodate 150,000 of its citizens entering from the desert north – returnee guest workers expelled from Libya after the fall of Muammar Gaddafi.