Sentence examples for barren place from inspiring English sources

Its manufactured joy comes from a cold, barren place.

He's some sort of vegan, but how does he feed his family in this barren place?

Even in the most barren place in the world there is a risk of falling down a glacier or crevasse".

There was no point, she said, because she had been told it was a barren place where there was nothing to do.

With help from his wife, their young sons, six leprosy patients and a lame cow and a dog, he turned the barren place into a thick forest.

Almost 70 years after Steinbeck popularized the plight of Oklahoma's Dust Bowl refugees in "The Grapes of Wrath," residents here still chafe at the city's reputation as a barren place.

Palm-oil plantations are barren places.

A recent American traveler to the region called Sinuiju "one of the most barren places in Korea".

Taken together, however, the announcements are part of a strategy by Mr. Pataki to fashion himself into something like an economic Johnny Appleseed, traveling the state and sprinkling magic coinage on barren places.

The forerunner of the monk, who lives in a community governed by rule, was the hermit or religious recluse, the type for whom solitary existence, preferably in deserts and barren places, is necessary for communion with the divine and self-purification.

It's big like that, but there are no trees, just this barren, hilly place, and we were just going down in the hollows between the hilltops and then we found a little place where we could overwatch.