The phrase "barren by" is not correct or usable in written English.
If you want to make a comparison between two subjects, you can use "compared with," "in comparison to," or "as opposed to." For example: The fields in the rural area were barren compared with the lush vegetation in the city.
In his vision "Parsifal" is set in a postapocalyptic world made barren by global warming.
"You are all barren by design," Ethan Duncan explains to Cosima.
For example, Ms. Gillard, 51, unmarried and without children, was once called "deliberately barren" by a senator.
New homes are sprouting from farmland once irrigated by the nearby Tigris River but rendered barren by war and neglect.
Their shelves are going barren by the day as they are rejecting the mass-market pulp fiction and the lowbrow offerings the publishers are forcing their way.
Old swaths of Appalachian forest land left barren by decades of coal mining may find their past is their future, if efforts to restore the American chestnut tree in reclaimed coal fields are successful.
It was the barren 150-by-10-foot median outside Mr. Finley's house that inspired his first act of crab grass defiance.
There were also at least two examples of that mournful, barren stand-by: a synagogue in the form of a Star of David, its walls extruded up from the star as a cathedral might be from the cross.
DWIGHT GARNER "Pine Barrens," by John McPhee (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1968).
Chelsea, however, hung onto the 3 points despite another barren display by Fernando Torres, who was removed before the end — booed by fans but applauded by the big boss, the owner Roman Abramovich.
In 2005 no birds bred successfully, their chicks carried away from barren rocks by two August typhoons.
