Sentence examples for turned barren from inspiring English sources

Early in the history of agriculture, people realized — without, obviously, understanding the chemistry behind this insight — that when usable nitrogen ran low fields turned barren.

Smoldering landfills of the kind by my house are ubiquitous — outside (and even inside) cities, along beaches, by the side of highways, on farms and fields that have turned barren from chemicals in the waste.

Real estate speculation — on the grand scale embodied in the great Los Angeles water grab that turned barren Southern California scrublands into prosperous farms and subdivisions, and on the small scale in which the modest Marin County house that Dad bought for $50,000 in 1960 is now worth a couple of million — is a big factor in our historic prosperity.

Irrigated India remains lush during months when much of rain-dependent India turns barren.

As the young journalist and blogger whose apparently charmed life turns barren, Billie Piper was mesmerising.

In the farms and fields that surround my home, farmers struggle with declining yields and land that is turning barren.

The green slopes of the Catskills will turn barren even as New Yorkers clamor for high-quality local milk.

Now, after four consecutive years of drought, this heartland of the Fertile Crescent — including much of neighboring Iraq — appears to be turning barren, climate scientists say.

Timberland decided to stick with the trees, and spent $1m to help local farmers turn barren land into orchards and forests.

However, after the urgent scramble of the past 12 months to turn barren land into Jordan's fourth largest city, a semblance of order has taken hold.

The beauty of the Sahara Forest scheme is that you can reverse that process and turn barren land into biologically productive land". Neil Crumpton, an energy specialist at Friends of the Earth, said the potential of these desert technologies was huge.