The phrase "barren space" is correct and commonly used in written English.
It refers to an area or space that is devoid of vegetation or life, often due to harsh environmental conditions. Example: The astronauts marveled at the vast, barren space they saw from their spaceship window as they orbited the moon.
Where there had once been a solid-looking symbol of shelter, there was a barren space.
The back wall drops and he is alone on a deep stage, a barren space walled by dark wood panels.
Two years ago, the school decided to transform the barren space into something central to the school: a student union.
A group of shareholders in my co-op building wants to renovate and landscape barren space behind our building and make the space available for use by residents.
When the union members started their camp above the grill, they had only a single headlight and a generator by which to make costumes in the barren space.
The entries for the George Square competition all envisaged a colder, more barren space, to be filled by some rather clumsy new interventions, like the surreal addition, in the Glasgow climate, of fountains.
Iceland is full of vast, barren spaces where few humans dwell, and Björk would draw peace and inspiration from this.
Like explorers seeking the South Pole, composers moved across barren spaces toward abstract goals: harmonic difficulty, rhythmical complexity, textural density, mathematical consistency... His music asks us to listen, note by note.
Over the next few weeks, every workday in the barren, borrowed space began with the same brainstorming session.
These were luxurious on the inside, but their rear courtyards were barren concrete spaces.
Operating with a yellow-and-gray palette and a fondness for oppressive, barren urban spaces that suggest a story both old and grimly futuristic, Villeneuve does a workmanlike job maintaining a Hitchcockian tension built on sympathy for Adam's curiosity, before segueing into Polanski-ish psychosexual territory.
