Sentence examples for pretty barren from inspiring English sources

"Right now, it's pretty barren," he said.

"The Midwest is still pretty barren for us, except for Chicago," she said.

The landscape – although rapidly recovering – would still have been pretty barren, particularly in winter.

A. Some places have really blossomed as the rose, which is a biblical phrase that they kind of took as their mandate, to make the desert "blossom as the rose".There were some that were pretty barren and now they've got farms, homes, trees.

In fact, it turned out to be more like searching for plants beneath a frozen tundra: on the surface, things did look pretty barren and empty; but when we cut through all the art fair bullshit, we quickly started to discover green shoots.

WTF? We'll have some pictures of the event later but it was pretty barren.

My starter world was fairly barren bar some pretty indifferent life forms pottering about, waiting for me to scan them for a units-rewarding discovery.

It boasts – uniquely – two handsome and separate coastlines, between which it manages to contain pretty much everything: barren moors, seaside towns and villages, ports, combes and a cathedral city.

If words were water, the drought problems so lengthily discussed in the new play by Kia Corthron, "A Cool Dip in the Barren Saharan Crick," would evaporate pretty quickly.

But judging by his affectingly moody paintings of boxy 1960's-vintage cars rolling through barren, nocturnal landscapes and of pretty, erotically alluring young women, that period of adolescent wildness still has his imagination in its grip.

It's not clear if DiCaprio was truly serious about leaving our little rock behind, but a gritty survivalist reboot of The Revenant filmed on the barren space tundra would be pretty sweet.