How to Use "barren" with Example Sentences

1. They have left the land scarred by barren tailings ponds and eroded hilltops .
2. Social ostracism , demoralization , and alcoholism comprise the barren netherworld between cultural states .
3. It used to be horribly expensive to visit . Now its hauntingly barren landscape is a bargain holiday destination .
4. But the other man 's parcel of land remained barren .
5. Today , an endless parade of supertankers , along this blue ribbon that cuts through barren desert .