Sentence examples for becoming barren from inspiring English sources

There are also hints of the apocalypse as the natural world outside the cabin withers, with dead birds piling up on the ground and the once-fertile earth becoming barren.

One participant reckoned: "We are living in hard times… the landslide was like a curse because these days soils are becoming barren and crop yields are low".

After a second straight year of poor rainfall, this country in the heart of the fertile crescent is, in places, becoming barren.

Earth's magnetic field shields the planet from charged particles streaming from the sun, keeping it from becoming a barren, Mars-like rock.

Farm raising fish is not without controversy and a new study in the Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science found that all aquarium fish are "at risk of becoming aggressive due to cramped, barren housing," reports Discovery News.

All this seems highly becoming to a poet of fruitful activity, not barren speculation.

In the far north the terrain is rugged and heavily forested, becoming wetter on the coastal side and drier and barren in the higher northeast.

This happened just days after Laredo, Tex., a city of nearly a quarter-million people, shuttered its last standing bookstore, becoming the first metropolis of that size to be barren of books sold the old-fashioned way.

After winning the 2011 Brazilian Masters, Murphy suffered a barren spell of three years without a trophy and considered becoming a snooker coach.

Long before I dreamed of becoming a scientist, I wondered why Earth was teeming with life, while Mars was a barren, rocky outpost and Venus was shrouded in a dense atmosphere.

Lost canopies tend to be replaced by species with lower structural complexity, such as turf-forming, filamentous or other ephemeral seaweeds, mussels, or urchin "barrens" (e.g., [18], [19], [20]) leading to a widespread perception that the coastal marine seascapes are becoming increasingly flatter.