Under this system a cockpit would become a 'largely barren space' with the pilot using a set of virtual controls.

Department stores are typically lumbered with barren space that makes little money.

The lack of any defining marks from the middle to the background create a desolate, empty and barren space.

Favouring grubby, derelict buildings or barren spaces awaiting refurbishment, its location scouts have inventively expanded the national catalogue of suitable places for art.