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Example sentences from the Web for barrensFinally, we came to a little ditch which some forgotten cranberry-grower had dug through the barrens to a long-deserted bog. Everyday Adventures|Samuel Scoville Started as soon as daylight; about seven miles more of barrens without a house or trace of civilization. An Artilleryman's Diary|Jenkin Lloyd Jones On the hillsides facing the river, where there were barrens, we found more. Fifty Years a Hunter and Trapper|Eldred Nathaniel Woodcock The journey proved a long and trying one, through swamps and barrens, and over rock-tumbled knolls. Brothers of Peril|Theodore Goodridge Roberts
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pl n(sometimes singular) (in North America) a stretch of usually level land that is sparsely vegetated or barren Words nearby barrensbarrel vault, barren, barren ground caribou, Barren Grounds, Barren Lands, barrens, barren strawberry, barrenwort, barrera, Barrès, Barré's sign Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to barrensback country, outback, jungle, wasteland, desert, forest, wilderness, wild, solitude, badlands, swamp, fen, void, moor, tundra, quagmire, barren, bush, marshland, marsh |