Sentence examples for barren piece from inspiring English sources

The cows and their owners are on a barren piece of land, surrounded by ruins, close to the beach which is strewn with rubbish.

Just off the main road through West Jerusalem toward Bethlehem sits a prime but barren piece of real estate surrounded by luxury flats.

Denmark and Canada are engaged in a territorial dispute over Hans Island, which a recent congressional research report describes as a "tiny, barren piece of rock" between Greenland and Canada's Ellesmere Island, because territorial claims will lead to resource rights.

This evocative novel by the author of "The Red Tent" follows the motley residents of a settlement on a barren piece of Massachusetts coastline in the mid-19th century.

While observing her subsequent meeting with Greene, Bond learns that Greene is helping an exiled Bolivian General, Medrano who murdered Camille's family to overthrow his government in exchange for a seemingly barren piece of desert.

Her negative opinions of the building included the public space of Girard Park which she describe as a "barren, virtually unusable piece of concrete".

"I got very upset when I finally saw the grave because it was just a piece of barren ground with nothing to mark it," she says.

When the charity checked the project recently, says Nawaf Obaid, a Saudi analyst, it found that nothing had been bought except a piece of barren land with rubbish on it.

Shams Din Fadelala built his own place from breeze blocks and corrugated iron on a piece of barren land that was once the compound of a German oil company.

KABUL, Afghanistan — On a piece of barren land on the western edge of this capital, a refugee camp is steadily swelling as families displaced by the heavy bombardment in southern Afghanistan arrive in batches.

On the 2nd leg, they traverse the East River passing through NY Harbor to dock at Dead Horse Bay; which is a bite taken out of a piece of land called Barren Is.