Sentence examples for were left barren from inspiring English sources

A week of steep discounts had emptied most of the store's merchandise; entire aisles were left barren, some cordoned off, like a crime scene, with yellow caution tape.

As a result, large swaths of land burned and were left barren, and much of the central part of the state became known as the "Pennsylvania Desert".

Sydney was dubbed the Green Games, but facilities there had limited lasting use, while some venues for the Athens Games have been left barren.

Hundreds of trees were cut down so that the shuttle could make the trip in one piece, angering many residents of South Los Angeles who worried their neighborhood would be left barren.

And those places give you more money and prestige and the old little towns are left barren.

Nothing was left except the discarded, dried-out tree tops, which became a fire hazard, so much of the land burned and was left barren.

Nothing was left except the dried-out tree tops, which became a fire hazard, so much of the land burned and was left barren.

On the clearcut land nothing remained except the discarded, dried-out tree tops, which were very flammable; much of the land burned and was left barren.

Despite its name, Spanish for "apple orchard," Manzanar had been left barren years earlier when Owens Valley water was diverted to Los Angeles.

But the pine barrens, which were left charred and laden with ash and charcoal, have for the most part been revitalized.

Touring his village, he comments on the toxicity of the bracken (which he associates with bleeding hands) and of the profound effect that sheepherding has had on the landscape, which has been left nearly barren by the grazing animals.