How to use "barren" in sentences with meaning in English and Hindi

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Example sentences for "barren" in popular movie and book plots

  • The scene begins near a hermitage high in the mountains, a place to which many barren women, including Yerma, have made a pilgrimage.  - Yerma
  • Cortez and Anya then observe the barren desert land restored to its former form; a lush, green forest filled with life.  - TimeSplitters: Future Perfect
  • Denied this by the priest Grigoris, the refugees retire to the barren slopes of the nearby mountain Sarakina, where they continue to starve.  - Christ Recrucified
  • An away team travels to the surface and finds that what had been farmland is now barren with no trace of life in the soil.  - Datalore
  • They find themselves naked and young on Earth, completely barren of humanity and man-made objects.  - The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect
  • The tomb is a small, barren room with two stone coffins, containing also his principal wife Tou Wan.  - The Story of the Stone (Barry Hughart)
  • The film ends with Essex taking a long walk out into the barren distance.  - Quintet (film)
  • Meanwhile, criminal genius Lex Luthor has developed a plan to make a fortune in real estate by buying large amounts of barren desert land.  - Superman (1978 film)
  • Lost on the barren surface of the planet, Mel has to avoid the Rani's ingenious traps and her monstrous, bat-like servants, the Tetraps.  - Time and the Rani
  • They first land on Rossem, a barren planet controlled by Tazenda, and meet with its governor, who appears ordinary.  - Second Foundation
  • Rubi-Ka was ripped apart in a cataclysm, leaving it a barren rock.  - Anarchy Online
  • The man, a lowly servant recently fired, is contemplating whether to starve to death or to become a thief to survive in the barren times.  - Rashōmon (short story)
  • There is the lush and green Palma, the arid and barren Motavia, and finally, the icy and desolate Dezoris.  - Phantasy Star (video game)
  • The Atreides leave their homeworld Caladan for Arrakis, a barren desert planet populated by gigantic sandworms.  - Dune (film)
  • Frodo and Sam navigate the barren wasteland of Mordor.  - The Return of the King
  • When Zorba returns to Madame Hortense's bedroom, the room is barren apart from her bed (where she lies) and the bird in her cage.  - Zorba the Greek (film)

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