barren

First, though, he has to be shocked into recognizing the barren waste of his spiritual life – by spirits.

He'd kept the few offices at the front of the bungalow, now oddly barren.

Without it in the atmosphere, the Earth would be a barren, frozen wasteland.

Ibrahim Hijazi walked me through his barren house, emptied ahead of the demolition.

Some parts were arid, nearly barren, others green and fertile.

Nothing, however, can save us but a union, which would turn our barren hills into fruitful valleys.

The cost of extraction varies in different localities, depending mainly on the mass of barren rock to be encountered and removed.

There the quantity of barren overlying rock and earth is enormous, and detracts immensely from the value of the mines.

The coast is sandy, and from M. Peron's description, barren and unprofitable.

After a barren discussion she held out her hand, large and generous like herself.