- a barren woman.
- a stark landscape.
- bare rocky hills.
- barren lands.
- innocent of literary merit.
- learned early in his marriage that he was sterile.
- the barrens of central Africa.
- the bleak treeless regions of the high Andes.
- the desolate surface of the moon.
- the sentence was devoid of meaning.
- the trackless wastes of the desert.
- writing barren of insight.
- young recruits destitute of experience.