Sentence examples for so barren from inspiring English sources

The city's sports scene has never been so barren and uninspired.

And yet, Seneca laments to his mother, "What other rock is so barren or so precipitous on every side? . . .

We lament, for the sake of the country alone, that the session just concluded has been so barren of results.

It was so barren and isolated that during the following three centuries of assiduous empire-building neither the Portuguese nor any other nation bothered to claim it.

One area where I work is called the Valley of the Dead because it's so barren and contains carcasses of seals that lost their way and became mummified.

"There were villages that I used to be able to see at distances of several kilometres, the land was so barren," he told me.

Weary of war and tired of terrorism, it's easy to believe that the past decade--so barren of compassion--could never give birth to a new way of relating and understanding.

Perhaps the actual songs ended up so bare, almost barren, in their construction so they would lend themselves more readily to manipulation in the "Biophilia" iPad apps.

In a New World so bare and barren, and faced with an overweening Nature such as the species has not encountered since prehistoric migrations, what does a person have?

Then 2010 and 2011 wouldn't look so terrifyingly barren.

Yet the 1850s, so politically barren, were economically momentous, for it was during this period that the great breakthrough of industrial capitalism occurred in Germany.