Example Sentences

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Those who had saved my life, whom, till this hour, I had loved barrenly, I could now benefit.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

She waited in a hall that, despite its mission settee and red-tiled floor, was barrenly clean as a convent.

From The Job An American Novel by Lewis, Sinclair

Pacing the contracted floor, sitting moodily in the chair,—many a brooding hour had gone over his barrenly busy head, and written its darkening record in his book of life.

From Idolatry A Romance by Hawthorne, Julian

The windows of my father's house looked barrenly down, like the eye-holes of skulls.

From Red Axe by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)

He himself, very timid and conscious of his awkwardness, sat near, trying barrenly to get some of his thoughts out of his brain on to his tongue.

From A Mountain Woman by Peattie, Elia Wilkinson