(n.) Elevated lands or plains on which grow small trees, but not timber; as, pine barrens; oak barrens. They are not necessarily sterile, and are often fertile.
Example Sentences:
(1) Blueberry barrens stretch over several acres in Wesley, Maine.
(2) During a year of residence in the essentially allergen-free, barren environment of Antarctica, allergic subjects were entirely sypmtom-free.
(3) Mean calving to conception intervals were 91.4 and 85.3 days (P < 0.01) and the incidence of barren cows was 10.2 and 5.3% (NS).
(4) Nobody is sure what dangerous chemical imbalance this would create but the Fiver is convinced we'd all be dust come October or November, the earth scorched, with only three survivors roaming o'er the barren landscape: Govan's answer to King Lear, ranting into a hole in the ground; a mute, wild-eyed pundit, staring without blinking into a hole in the ground; and a tall, irritable figure standing in front of the pair of them, screaming in the style popularised by Klaus Kinski, demanding they take a look at his goddamn trouser arrangement, which he has balanced here on the platform of his hand for easy perusal, or to hell with them, for they are no better than pigs, worthless, spineless pigs.
(5) BBC footage showed Tebbutt wearing a green headscarf running towards a plane in a flat, barren landscape.
(6) Forced removals and dumping of millions of people into small, disconnected, barren, poor reserve areas, bereft of adequate medical, psychiatric and public health services (the 'final solution' of the 'native problem') causes widespread malnutrition, infectious and other diseases, and high mortality and mental-illness rates.
(7) There is no difference in the cyclicity of indices studied between pregnant and barren mares.
(8) Many cities have a history of hosting refugees; indeed, the typical image of a refugee dwelling – straight rows of nondescript tents set up on barren, faraway lands – is misleading.
(9) There were three groups: pregnant (P) ewes (n = 6) which each reared twin lambs, hormone-treated (H) ewes (n = 7) which were not pregnant and were given exogenous hormones (dexamethasone, oestradiol-17 beta, progesterone) for 37 days to induce udder development and milk production, and untreated barren (B) ewes (n = 6).
(10) Last year, Icelandic authorities rejected a Chinese billionaire's bid to turn land in the country's barren north into a holiday resort .
(11) It’s in these barren parts that the Edwards air force base is located, where Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier for the first time, and where the test pilots celebrated in Tom Wolfe’s The Right Stuff proved their mettle before going on to become America’s first astronauts.
(12) I grit my teeth as the trees hunker down smaller and smaller, then finally give up entirely, leaving us alone in a barren upland area where there is one large grey house partially obscured by torn curtains of freezing rain.
(13) 9 of 30 camels which were barren for a long period were found to be positive for C. fetus.
(14) Between 1982 and 1985, 1015 mares were evaluated using the following parameters: age, mare status (maiden, barren, lactating), Caslick index, Caslick operation, ovarian cycle, ovarian and follicular size, treatments (hCG and intrauterine infusions), number of ovulations after mating (184 mares), number of conceptuses present, dimensions of embryonic vesicles, and pregnancy status 45 days after mating.
(15) In 2007 the conservative senator, Bill Heffernan, accused the prime minister, then in opposition, of being unfit for leadership because she was "deliberately barren".
(16) All dogs from which necropsy samples were obtained harbored low numbers of adult female worms, some of which were barren.
(17) And no wonder, so seductively dystopian is its premise: that a species can be eradicated by altering the genetic code of males in captivity so that they will only be able to produce sterile offspring, then releasing them into the wild to mate with unsuspecting females, rendering the next generation barren.
(18) To analyse the junction point between the expression site and the inserted gene, these two barren regions were cloned and sequenced.
(19) He looks down dismissively at the guilty patch of barren earth.
(20) The presence of the nuclear plant is a beacon of employment in an otherwise barren jobs landscape.
Landfall
Definition:
(n.) A sudden transference of property in land by the death of its owner.
(n.) Sighting or making land when at sea.
Example Sentences:
(1) Why, for example, would a meteorologist fail to correctly predict where a hurricane was going to make landfall, or why might a doctor fail to figure out what was going on inside my son and fix it?
(2) But the latest computer models from the Japanese government and Noaa suggest most of the wreckage that will make landfall will begin washing up this October and continue into late 2013.
(3) With winds weakening to about 75mph, the tropical storm made landfall in northern Vietnam early on Monday.
(4) Forecasts suggest the oil will make landfall on Thursday.
(5) There’s still a distinct possibility that his could make landfall somewhere in the US,” said Dennis Feltgen, a meteorologist and hurricane center spokesman.
(6) "There aren't too many buildings constructed that can withstand that kind of wind," meteorology expert Jeff Masters told the Associated Press of Haiyan's 195mph landfall.
(7) The ruling is a partial victory for the families – originally from Iraq, Sudan, Ethiopia and Syria – who left the coast of Lebanon in a fishing boat operated by smugglers in the hope of making an Italian landfall.
(8) Typhoon Vincente made landfall at 4am (8pm GMT Monday), after the Hong Kong Observatory issued its No 10 hurricane signal, its highest, for the first time since 1999.
(9) With no clear sign of an early fix, authorities were stepping up their efforts to keep the oil from making landfall.
(10) The safety of these refugees, whether they are fleeing a state that has failed politically or economically, is a duty not just for the country in which they make landfall but for the whole of the EU.
(11) If your hurricane plans got a little dusty because of the light hurricane season, now is a good time to update them.” Even if Joaquin does not make landfall, forecasters warn that it could produce heavy rains, gusty winds and coastal flooding.
(12) They went back to the example of how a given hurricane will behave when it makes landfall, how fast it will be going when it does, and what they said is that we’re asking science to do more than it can when we ask it to tell us what exactly is going on.
(13) Then, it will make a 90 degree right turn upon landfall.
(14) Ryan Zimmerman hits a double off of him almost as soon as Harper's home run ball makes landfall.
(15) Thirteen of them were typhoon-strength, the biggest by some way being typhoon Haiyan , possibly the most powerful tropical cyclone to make landfall in recorded history.
(16) Nearly half of those displaced are in coastal areas considered highly vulnerable to storm surges and flooding from cyclone Mahasen, which is expected to make landfall early on Friday.
(17) At 4:45 a.m. EDT, Hurricane Andrew made landfall 35 miles southeast of Miami at Homestead, with sustained winds of 145 miles per hour (mph) and gusts of 164 mph.
(18) Sebald goes on to recount his own eventual landfall on the island in 1996, then employs this – the parenthetic of his own life – to consider the strange denouement and afterlife of the pre-eminent ideologue of the French revolution.
(19) There will be no accompanying craft, but the Plastiki will be met by a support team at each landfall.
(20) Sullivan pointed out that 1992 was a below-average season – but the first storm that year, Andrew, affected Florida for decades after its landfall.