barren
adjective
not producing or incapable of producing offspring; sterile.
barrenly
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a word derived from
barren.
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
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 Julian Hawthorne
So his years had passed; too smoothly to age him; too barrenly to content or enrich him in any sense.
From The Torch Bearer by Reina Melcher Marquis
The Isleta is the latest volcano in Grand Canary, and except in certain states of the atmosphere it is utterly and barrenly hideous.
From A Tramp's Notebook by Morley Roberts
The windows of my father's house looked barrenly down, like the eye-holes of skulls.
From Red Axe by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
