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barren

If a woman is barren, she is unable to bear children. 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? If a piece of land is barren, it is not producing vegetation. If a place is barren, it is dull and lifeless.

barren

A barren is an area of low fertility and habitation. The pine barrens are a site lonely enough to suit any hermit.

barren

(= destitute, devoid, innocent) completely wanting or lacking writing barren of insight young recruits destitute of experience innocent of literary merit the sentence was devoid of meaning not bearing offspring a barren woman learned early in his marriage that he was sterile (= waste) an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation the barrens of central Africa the trackless wastes of the desert (= bare, bleak, desolate, stark) providing no shelter or sustenance bare rocky hills barren lands the bleak treeless regions of the high Andes the desolate surface of the moon a stark landscape

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The trees are barren or bear only small fruit.
On December 24, 1968, Apollo 8 astronauts Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, and Bill Anders became the first humans to witness the Earth rising above the moon's barren surface.
I am barren.

Movie subtitles

It doesn't have enough greenhouse gases to trap in heat and it's become a cold, barren, desert world.
It's barren and inhospitable and man is forced to fight for subsistence.
We are entering the barren lands of Las Hurdes.
Only to find either barren rocks or hostile inhabitants.
Well, I've provided barren soil for that seed.. butyou'llgiveitfertility and growth and fruition.
It's pretty dry and barren, but I'm sure I can make it.
Our fields are barren, the inn is empty.
What was once a happy, productive region, is today, barren waste.
And let those that play your clowns speak no more than is set down for them, for there be of them that will themselves laugh to set on some barren quantity of spectators to laugh too, though some necessary question of the play be then to be considered.
I had begun to despair of our barren valley.
The land is barren and the barn empty.
I was on an island, and barren by the sea.
He led us to this barren land and now he betrays us.
It was barren.
Take your last breaths before your destruction. I'm going to reduce this place to a barren wasteland.
I regret as deeply as you, Sir Humphrey that so far, the negotiations should have proven barren of results.
Don't exert yourself - your mind will dry up anyway in this barren land!
The reason is a puny rock-bound island as barren and treacherous as her queen. who secretly gives aid to our enemies while her pirates plunder our commerce.
Barren mountain banks interrupt the wide plains.
To the west, this is more or less barren and would afford no means of escape.
There's the settlement. Barren River.
Barren River.
Barren River?
I'll go trapping where it's peaceful, and you can go on back to Barren River.
Oh, great one, let his people go, or all of Egypt will be barren from the cataracts to the sea.
Cramped by the confines of their barren, icebound northlands, they exploited their skill as shipbuilders to spread a reign of terror then unequalled in violence and brutality in all the records of history.
Sadness that there was not enough to eat sadness that he had no work sadness the earth all around him was growing barren in the sun.
The region we are going to visit is called Las Hurdes. It's barren and inhospitable and man is forced to fight for subsistence.
Or a barren piece of ground that neither side wants.
As a farmer, I'd rather own one half acre of barren rock free and clear. than work the richest land in the world for someone else.
I think my father would rather own half an acre of barren rock in his own name. than work the richest land in the world for somebody else.
It would be a pity if we were not to have another. if you were barren.
Barren, already I will fix something to him.
Now, to the west, this is more or less barren and would afford no means of escape.
I love these barren island rocks.
It is merely barren speculation. -Bravo!
So barren.
Makes her even more desirable shows she ain't barren.
Now, our tests indicate the planet surface, without considerably more vegetation or some animals, is simply too barren to support life.

News and current affairs

It is certainly one of the more innovative and promising ideas to emerge from a rather barren policy landscape.
And a long planned step forward in cooperation between South Korea and Japan was torpedoed when the South Korean president visited the barren island that Korea calls Dokdo, Japan calls Takeshima, and the United States calls the Liancourt Rocks.
Irrigation systems remain crude and inadequate to confronting the vicissitudes of rainfall on the often parched and barren Korean peninsula.
One reason that Russia's reform debates are so barren is the country's lack of coherent political parties.
A field of science can turn barren if no fundamentally new approaches to research are on the horizon.
However, rigorous standardization of the environment, particularly if it leads to barren surroundings, increases the risk of obtaining results that, being specific to a narrow set of conditions, cannot be compared with other researchers' results.
The air was stale but heavy with the stench of death in interrogation chambers, barren save for a single bed frame, shackles, and a chair.
How does one relate to the inanimate objects rising out of the barren yet majestic desert sands?
Trapped in barren land where survival was difficult, the overwhelming forces of Muslim warlords wiped them out.

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