BARREN in a Sentence
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45 example sentences for BARREN, such as:
1. The land is barren on the east coast.
2. The barren land could produce little food.
3. It wouldn't be like these barren settlements.
4. Thousands of years ago the surface was barren desert.
5. Viera ended his barren spell with a goal against Parma.
2. The barren land could produce little food.
3. It wouldn't be like these barren settlements.
4. Thousands of years ago the surface was barren desert.
5. Viera ended his barren spell with a goal against Parma.
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Meanings and Examples of BARREN
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barren
a. completely wanting or lacking
a. not bearing offspring
Classic Sentence: (36 in 3 pages)
1 North, and east, and west he looked with wild questioning eyes, and then he realised that his wanderings had come to an end, and that there, on that barren crag, he was about to die.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In PART II: CHAPTER I. ON THE GREAT ALKALI PLAIN
Context Highlight In PART II: CHAPTER I. ON THE GREAT ALKALI PLAIN
2 On the little plateau which crowned the barren hill there stood a single giant boulder, and against this boulder there lay a tall man, long-bearded and hard-featured, but of an excessive thinness.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In PART II: CHAPTER I. ON THE GREAT ALKALI PLAIN
Context Highlight In PART II: CHAPTER I. ON THE GREAT ALKALI PLAIN
3 The supply of adult women was running short, and polygamy without a female population on which to draw was a barren doctrine indeed.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In PART II: CHAPTER III. JOHN FERRIER TALKS WITH THE PROPHET
Context Highlight In PART II: CHAPTER III. JOHN FERRIER TALKS WITH THE PROPHET
4 Nor was the fear entirely an illusion, for the barren valley was thickly strewn with trees and boulders which had fallen in a similar manner.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In PART II: CHAPTER V. THE AVENGING ANGELS
Context Highlight In PART II: CHAPTER V. THE AVENGING ANGELS
5 She did not want it, it was known and barren, birthless; the adoration was her treasure.
6 It needed but this to complete the grim suggestiveness of the barren waste, the chilling wind, and the darkling sky.
7 The barren scene, the sense of loneliness, and the mystery and urgency of my task all struck a chill into my heart.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In Chapter 11. The Man on the Tor
Context Highlight In Chapter 11. The Man on the Tor
8 Finding that Holmes was too absorbed for conversation I had tossed aside the barren paper, and leaning back in my chair I fell into a brown study.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In II. The Adventure of the Cardboard Box
Context Highlight In II. The Adventure of the Cardboard Box
9 It wouldn't be like these barren settlements.
10 The dooryard was of packed yellow clay, treeless, barren of grass, littered with rusty plowshares and wheels of discarded cultivators.
11 He clumped after her, up the stairs, into his barren office.
12 A town in California which had changed itself from the barren brick fronts and slatternly frame sheds of a Main Street to a way which led the eye down a vista of arcades and gardens.
13 It was prickly hot, yet the town was barren under the bleak sky.
14 I'm glad," said Carol to Kennicott as they stooped before the northwest gale which was torturing the barren street, "that this is a moral country.
15 So omnipotent is art; which in many a district of New Bedford has superinduced bright terraces of flowers upon the barren refuse rocks thrown aside at creation's final day.
Example Sentence:
1 Thousands of years ago the surface was barren desert.
2 He also wants to use the water to irrigate barren desert land.
3 The land is barren on the east coast.
4 Viera ended his barren spell with a goal against Parma.
5 The barren land could produce little food.
6 That remote barren land has blossomed into rich granaries.
7 Looking out at the trackless, barren desert, Indiana Jones feared that his search for the missing expedition would prove fruitless.
8 On the surface, the natural landscape is all but barren, clouds drift over a plain adorned by tumbleweed.
9 They are messengers of hope, springing forth from the barrenness and bitter cold of winter and heralding a new season of warmth and sunshine.