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
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
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 Elia Wilkinson Peattie
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 Sinclair Lewis
She gazed out of the window blankly, barrenly.
From The Broken Gate A Novel by Emerson Hough
