Sentence examples for barren and desolate from inspiring English sources
It didn't end well for Moominpappa, the island he and the other Moomins settled on being barren and desolate, inhabited only by a silent fisherman who turned out to be the ex-lighthouse keeper driven mad by loneliness.
Seddon's depiction of Nutmeg Valley as barren and desolate was a poster for the enterprise of in-gathering and settling Jews on it, for only when the Jews were gathered in the Holy Land and the Messiah appeared would this desolate landscape find redemption.
Joking at the expense of the opposition benches, Mr Osborne said: "We on this side of the house have often gazed at the barren and desolate wastelands of the Red Planet.
The riverbanks around the dam, once forest and farmland, are now barren and desolate.
The video features the band immersed in a landscape as barren and desolate as it is cosmic and alien.
This is the central tenet of "techno-optimism," the breed of science-fiction writing that's working to counter the rough terrain of dystopia, barren and desolate as it is; thirsty, it sometimes seems, for a solution that's bigger than a big-hearted narrator.
It felt very sort of flat and barren and stark.
The Ghawr region was formerly barren, desolate, and uninhabited, but the East Ghor irrigation canal 43 miles (69 km) long was completed in 1967 on the east bank and has permitted the cultivation of oranges, bananas, early vegetables, and sugar beets on the Jordanian side of the valley.
LaGuardia Airport was desolate and wet.
