Sentence examples for barren grounds from inspiring English sources

It drains a major portion of the Barren Grounds (a sub-Arctic prairie region).

The first European to encounter the Barren Grounds region was Englishman Samuel Hearne during his 1769 72 expedition.

Caribou, musk oxen, foxes, and bears inhabit the Barren Grounds, large areas of which are protected by the Queen Maud Gulf Migratory Bird Sanctuary and Thelon Wildlife Sanctuary.

Between the fort and the Arctic Ocean lay an immense region known only as the Barren Grounds, rumoured to be filled with riches, including copper.

The sudden blooming of flowers is spectacular, particularly along the southern edges of the tundra, and for a short time in July the Barren Grounds are covered with a mass of flowers.

Its bare windswept ridges are covered with tundra associations, while in the sheltered valleys there are woodlands, which may become continuous near large rivers and, if the rivers flow north, may penetrate many miles into the Barren Grounds.

Why should Connecticut be such barren ground?

But "Fish, Blood and Bone" remains barren ground.

The barren ground they fight on is a horrific no man's land.

There are some promising sprouts now shooting from that barren ground.

Since the peak of 1990's Rhythm of the Saints he has been ploughing barren ground.