Get to know Barren better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like bare or waste.
Barren in a sentence
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Barren meaning
- Not bearing children, childless; hence also unable to bear children, sterile.
- Not bearing seed or fruit.
- Of poor fertility, infertile; not producing vegetation; desert, waste.
Synonyms of Barren
Using Barren
- The main meaning on this page is: Not bearing children, childless; hence also unable to bear children, sterile. | Not bearing seed or fruit. | Of poor fertility, infertile; not producing vegetation; desert, waste.
- Useful related words include: bare, waste, dead, infertile.
- In the example corpus, barren often appears in combinations such as: the barren, of barren, is barren.
Context around Barren
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 7 start, 4 middle, 9 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Barren
- In this selection, "barren" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 23.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, pretty, blissfully, four, county, run and weeks stand out and add context to how "barren" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a pretty barren world and a remarkably barren district with. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "barren" sits close to words such as additive, affirm and agony, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with barren
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
It can make the map blissfully barren. (7 words)
Park City Fire Dept. responded as well as Barren County EMS and the Barren County Sheriffs Dept. (17 words)
The Thar, one of the most populated deserts in the world, has long been perceived as a barren wasteland. (19 words)
Meanwhile, deep in the outback of Australia, Aspira DAC, a company that’s a unit of Corporate Carbon, which also sells credits for certified carbon removal, is planning on a massive project of thousands of modules in the barren outback. (40 words)
It is in the four barren weeks of Advent that hymns of expectant waiting are sung and we recognize our own lacking that only the coming of the Lord can satiate. (31 words)
The seven-time world champion ended a barren run stretching back 33 races by claiming a record-increasing 104th pole of his career and his record ninth at the Hungaroring circuit. (31 words)
Example sentences (20)
Park City Fire Dept. responded as well as Barren County EMS and the Barren County Sheriffs Dept.
After you get to the Barren Swamp Bridge you might have noticed a gate with an NPC named Rookie Explorer Hugo standing beside it.
A native of Barren County, he was the son of the late Garland “Junior” Gentry and Nelda Earlene Geralds Gentry.
And behold, even your relative Elizabeth has also conceived a son in her old age; and she who was called barren is now in her sixth month.
At one point in the trailer, we briefly see Cal trekking through a red dust storm on what appears to be a pretty barren world.
Having conceded six consecutive scores, BAG ended a barren run with a neat Seartan point only to be cancelled out by Cathal Browne at the opposite end.
Hopefully the impact of the writers and actors strike won’t leave us with too many barren weeks in 2024.
If you trim wild onions in the barren sign of Leo, it may not help, but it certainly will not hurt anything either.
I strive for more, but the soil is barren to date; an eye is still open for unearthing some hidden nuggets.
It can make the map blissfully barren.
It is in the four barren weeks of Advent that hymns of expectant waiting are sung and we recognize our own lacking that only the coming of the Lord can satiate.
It's always barren and sadly doesn't have festival animations but it's crucial if players want their city to stay intact.
It’s a petition that local property owner Robin O’Neil hopes will bring back commerce to an otherwise barren area.
It was as though the West had wandered into a desert of despair characterized by the barren fruit of desiccated inspiration.
Masafer Yatta, a remarkably barren district with semi-nomadic Bedouin camps, was requested by the Israeli Defense Forces through eminent domain as training grounds.
Meanwhile, deep in the outback of Australia, Aspira DAC, a company that’s a unit of Corporate Carbon, which also sells credits for certified carbon removal, is planning on a massive project of thousands of modules in the barren outback.
Ocean View is located on the southern part of the Big Island of Hawaii, and it is known for its vast stretches of barren lava fields.
Tarentum’s riverfront property appears barren Friday while Brackenridge’s is still bustling as seen from across the Allegheny River in Lower Burrell.
The seven-time world champion ended a barren run stretching back 33 races by claiming a record-increasing 104th pole of his career and his record ninth at the Hungaroring circuit.
The Thar, one of the most populated deserts in the world, has long been perceived as a barren wasteland.
Common combinations with barren
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the barren 24×
- of barren 12×
- is barren 11×
- barren and 11×
- barren county 10×
- and barren 10×
- barren run 8×
- barren desert 6×
- was barren 6×
- be barren 6×