This part of Algeria is extremely hot and barren.

Verily I say unto thee, lay thine eyes upon the field in which my fucks are grown. Behold that it is barren.

And then he realized that his wanderings had come to an end, and that there, on that barren crag, he was about to die.

Somewhere there, on that desolate plain, was lurking this fiendish man, hiding in a burrow like a wild beast, his heart full of malignancy against the whole race which had cast him out. It needed but this to complete the grim suggestiveness of the barren waste, the chilling wind, and the darkling sky.

Algeria needs to turn its big barren desert into productive lands.

This place is barren.

The giraffes need to cross this area of barren land to find water.

On the little plateau which crowned the barren hill there stood a single giant boulder, and against this boulder there lay a tall man, long-bearded and hard-featured, but of an excessive thinness.

He is barren of creative spirit.

Mars is a barren world.