Sentence examples for rather barren from inspiring English sources

The coastline is rather barren and inhospitable, inhabited mostly by pastoral nomads.

But by now the Greek East had become rather barren; much of its production was imitative rather than vitally creative.

It is a rather barren volcanic rock of only 88 acres (36 hectares) that commands the roadstead of Dakar harbour.

Despite the Philipses' wealth, the house seems rather barren, in part because the family did not occupy it year-round.

This party injects some much-needed energy into a Leeds scene that can be rather barren outside of student term time, with residents playing B2B with some of their favourite selectors from outside the city.

For the Warneses, it all started with a short walk from the hotel east to Millennium Park, that jewel of green space that earlier this decade transformed a rather barren stretch of downtown into an art, dining and entertainment destination.

Carter used a different note technique but he arrived in a very similar terrain, one void of a predictive quality, and rather bleak and barren.

WHEN residents of Iran's capital seek escape from its choking smog, they often head for the hills, or rather the barren mountains that soar above Tehran's northern suburbs.

The graceful forms that emerge beneath Hassan's hand - humans among elephants, crocodiles, giraffes and hippopotamuses - reveal what scientists have now confirmed: rather than barren and dessicated, it was once lush and green here at Wadi al-Hayat (the Valley of Life, also known as Wadi al-Ajal) in the Fezzan region of south-west Libya.

I would rather be barren and brazen than impregnated and perpetually tired.

Managed barrens that are adjacent to remnant barrens, rather than adjacent to woodland habitats, have the highest potential for conserving barrens breeding birds.