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• After several barren years it was good to see the trees bearing fruit.From the entry bear fruit
• The dogs raced across the barren icescape.From the entry icescape
• We made landfall at the most god-forsaken, barren, desolate, and hellish location possible to image; and we were grateful, anything to get off that ship!From the entry landfall
• Barren dirt plots behind knee-high metal fences indicated admin must have cut the flower budget.2020, “Zoo”, in Still at the Rough Cusp of Renaissance, performed by Good Fuck. From the entry admin
• Mats of low-growing sandbells thrive on otherwise barren strips of roadside.1995, Wayne H. McAlister, Martha K. McAlister, Aransas: A Naturalist's Guide, page 317. From the entry sandbell
• The literature of fruit growing contains a number of references to barren or semibarren strains.1935, Journal of Agricultural Research, volume 50, page 457. From the entry semibarren
• Even Sunday was not barren for Zuleika: modish hostesses gave her postprandially to their guests.1911, Max Beerbohm, chapter II, in Zuleika Dobson. From the entry postprandially
• Owing to soil erosion, some farmland has become totally barren.2002, “Cleaning the Yellow River”, in 修月祯 [Xiu Yuezhen], editor, 旅游英语教程 [Lü you ying yu jiao cheng], Beijing: Renmin University of China…. From the entry Shanxi
• We arrived in Golmud, formerly Tibetan, now a Chinese town, a small oasis in a barren area, at about 7 A.M.1997 October 19, Karen Swenson, “Approaches To Tibet”, in The New York Times (Travel section), New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company…. From the entry Golmud
• The mission occupied eight or ten ares of land, a barren purlieu that held a few goats and burros.1985, Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian […] , →OCLC. From the entry purlieu
• Located on the loess plateau, the county is full of barren hills, and therefore it is very difficult to develop production.1975 January 13 [1975 January 10], “Persist in Continuing the Revolution Under the Dictatorship of the Proletariat--Some Experiences in…. From the entry fuku
• O anointed with dust, What dry in your throat makes barren your tongue This winterward moment my presence has sung?1958, Contact - Issues 1-3. From the entry winterward
• I "whipped the cat" three months on the barrens — then I engaged to work for a merchant in Rome.1925, Benedict Fitzpatrick, Joseph Fulford Folsom, Edwin P. Conklin, The municipalities of Essex county, New Jersey, 1666-1924, page 84. From the entry whip the cat
• The trees like this barren ironstone formation.1924, D. H. Lawrence, chapter 3, in The Boy in the Bush, New York: Viking, published 1972, page 41. From the entry ironstone
• To continue: the unrated, as distinguished from the unruly, bebusied themselves with furbishing the barren abodes of Durfee, Farnam and Lawrance.1914, H. Roswell Hawley, “Sophomore Year”, in George Washington Patterson, editor, History of the Class of Nineteen-Hundred and Fourteen…. From the entry bebusy
• The best barrens for blueberrying lay across the harbor.1908, Henry James Smith, Amédée's Son, Houghton Mifflin Company, published 1908, page 91. From the entry blueberrying
• Symptom is stunting of plant, premature wilting of leaves, chlorotic stripes on young leaves, leaf purpling, excessive tillering and cobbing and formation of barren cobs.2020, A. Solaimalai, P. Anantharaju, S. Irulandi, Maize Crop. From the entry cobbing
• Liouciou Island (Figure 1) is only 6.8 km2 and is primarily coral limestone which is dry and barren and not suitable for cultivation.2012, Chung-Ling Ouyang, “THE ASSESSMENT OF AND ADAPTATION TO DISEASE RISK IN LIOUCIOU TOWNSHIP, TAIWAN”, in Human Geographies – Journal…. From the entry Liouciou
• The parallel development of the once-contiguous Cambro-Ordovician successions provides a framework in which to place the faunally barren strata of the Durness Group.2002, R. G. Park, A. D. Stewart, D. T. Wright, “3: The Hebridean terrane”, in N. H. Trewin, editor, The Geology of Scotland, 4th edition…. From the entry faunally
• The strip of land north of the port of Ch'ing-tao in Shantung province is forested, in sharp distinction to the barren hills beyond.1969, Yi-Fu Tuan, China, Chicago: Aldine Publishing Company, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 33. From the entry Ch'ing-tao
• Their path led them past sharp cliffs, along narrow trails unknown and untrodden, past headlong boulders strewn across barren, treeless, wind-haunted heights.1961, Norma Lorre Goodrich, “Beowulf”, in The Medieval Myths, New York: The New American Library, page 35. From the entry headlong
• The peaks of the Wasatch notched the west, the barren Wyoming plateau northward swelled up toward South Pass and the snowy Wind River Mountains.1954, Wallace Stegner, Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West, Houghton Mifflin, →LCCN…. From the entry Wind River Mountains
• In a windswept location in the Mu Us Desert (Ordos Desert), Youyu County of Shanxi Province is a barren land battered by sandstorms and with minimal natural resources.2018, Xi Jinping, The Governance of China, volume II, Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 159. From the entry people's republic
• This expressive, challenging and ambiguous over-production of the affectively, abundantly feminine is a characteristic of hagsploitation, which overlaps the seemingly barren and excluded with outright excess.2017, Erin Harrington, Women, Monstrosity and Horror Film: Gynaehorror, →ISBN. From the entry hagsploitation
• The outback′s rich, red soil looked like blood because of all the iron in it, and the vast land was so still and barren that it seemed lifeless.2002, Erinn Banting., Australia: The People, page 20. From the entry outback
• In the barren fields there were others; and amongst the dead, the survivors crawled slowly on their hands and knees searching for wild grass seeds to eat.1996, Jasper Becker, Hungry Ghosts: Mao's Secret Famine, The Free Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1. From the entry Guangshan
• As they entered the foothills they came upon a dusty old diligence with six horses in the traces grazing the dry grass in a fold among the barren scrag.1985, Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian or The Evening of Redness in the West, Vintage International, →ISBN, page 120. From the entry scrag
• Young men washed in the ecstasy of macho male companionship rode a jeep through barren country and embraced at a bar piled up with beer cans.1979, Kate Braverman, chapter 3, in Lithium for Medea: A Novel, published 2011, →ISBN. From the entry you only go around once
• The state of Wisconsin, once one of the cooler hotbeds of faanish endeavor, today lies fallow, barren and all but devoid of the faintest crepitance of crifanac.1966 November, Dean Grennell, “A Pilgrim in Never-Never Country”, in Science-Fiction Five-Yearly, number 4, page 19. From the entry crifanac
• The largest patch seen, which is about 2 cm. across, is a milky white crystal almost filling a small vugh in otherwise barren white quartz from the 3-level.1957, Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, Proceedings, page 107. From the entry vugh
• Their croppings are either entirely barren or contain only a moderate amount of copper, but much richer ore is ordinarily found just above the chalcocite zone.1905, Waldemar Lindgren, The Copper Deposits of the Clifton-Morenci District, Arizona, page 207. From the entry chalcocite

Meaning of barren

1. adjective Not bearing children, childless; hence also unable to bear children, sterile.
2. adjective Not bearing seed or fruit.
3. adjective Of poor fertility, infertile; not producing vegetation; desert, waste.

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How do you use barren in a sentence?

Barren is used as an adjective and noun. For example: “I silently wept as my daughter's husband rejected her. What would she do now that she was no longer a maiden but also barren?”

What is a short sentence with barren?

“The dogs raced across the barren icescape.”

What does barren mean?

Barren means not bearing children, childless; hence also unable to bear children, sterile.