The phrase "barren without" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It means lacking or empty without something else. It can be used in a variety of situations, such as describing a place, object, or person without a certain element that is necessary or significant. Example: The house felt barren without the laughter of children echoing through the halls. In this sentence, the presence of children is important to make the house feel alive and vibrant. Without them, the house seems empty or barren.
Most of these islands are barren, without drinking water.
The dais of our annual spring luncheon will feel barren without her.
As grand as we all know it is, New York nevertheless felt barren without the Cosmos, without a soccer league.
Everybody Knows, I'm Your Man and Take This Waltz are all perfect examples of the Master's song-craft yet would feel barren without their period dressing.
As the narrator of "Twilight," one of the short stories collected in "The Curse of the Appropriate Man," explains: "Living among women seems like a dangerous thing to do.... Anyway, the life would be barren without men".
In our own tests Google TV is actually fairly painful and barren without external content and Hulu compatibility has, thus far, been an important part of almost any streaming device.
"These companies are proposing to tear up the pine barrens without our even knowing if these pipelines are needed," he said.
The study was conducted at three sites on the Mediterranean coast of Turkey (Kas, Fethiye, and Bodrum) where we observed extensive barrens without sea urchins (Fig. 2).
Having a local as our guide, we learnt much about the Berber way of life, their Islamic beliefs and how they survive in such barren surroundings without electricity or cars.
He focuses squarely on the daily problems of living in bitter conditions: how to hunt pigs, catch a peregrine falcon and endure a journey across a thousand barren miles without dying of thirst, heat, cold, starvation, bandits or madness.
Arsenal supporters' hopes that the League Cup will provide the first of four chances to end eight barren years without a trophy were kept alive in dramatic fashion when Nacho Monreal scored the winning kick in a penalty shootout.
