"the barrens of central Africa"
"the trackless wastes of the desert"

"bare rocky hills"
"barren lands"
"the bleak treeless regions of the high Andes"
"the desolate surface of the moon"
"a stark landscape"

"a barren woman"
"learned early in his marriage that he was sterile"

"writing barren of insight"
"young recruits destitute of experience"
"innocent of literary merit"
"the sentence was devoid of meaning"