Sentence examples for laid barren from inspiring English sources

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The Times of London amused itself with a full-length article describing Obama's tour in a parody of Biblical language that began like this: "And it came to pass, in the eighth year of the reign of the evil Bush the Younger (The Ignorant), when the whole land from the Arabian desert to the shores of the Great Lakes had been laid barren, that a Child appeared in the wilderness".

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The Downtown sidewalk now lays barren, and Aritzan Street neighbors find themselves without any of the benefits of urban tree cover.

Just north of the city, the president, René Préval, laid a wreath on a barren hillside at Titanyen, also known as St Christophe, which is believed to contain the remains of more than 150,000 hastily buried people.

The great plains where the Indians roamed in search of buffalo are now a great forest of pale orange and yellow, miles and miles of artificial lights laid out on the land like millions of barren Christmas trees.

At night, the children gather together to keep warm, sleeping on thin mats laid directly on the floor of their house, which is just four barren concrete walls and a leaking roof.

This method is best if there is sufficient land to allow laying a portion fallow (barren) for a season.

The first seed to fall barren was James Blake, who proved unable to build on the foundations he laid when making the final at Queen's and was beaten decisively 7-5, 6-4, 7-6 by Andreas Seppi.

A neat yet barren mosaic of small roads and yellow brick homes with corrugated roofs has been laid down amid the expanse of plowed fields 20 miles northeast of the Ukrainian capital, a microcosm of the world Soviet officials are trying to rebuild from the debris of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster.

Services were held at the National Memorial Arboretum in Staffordshire and military bases, as well as at community cenotaphs, as veterans, youth leaders and councillors together laid wreaths in front of assembled local residents, many of whom had poppies pinned on to their lapels, representing the flowers that grew on the otherwise barren battlefields of northern France and Flanders.

(lay, laid, laid, laying).

This amendment, H.R. 1731, the Egg Products Inspection Act Amendment, aims to ban the barren battery cages for laying hens and drive a transition in the egg industry toward more humane housing systems.

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