1.   All they could see in front of them was a vast mass of barren open ground.

2.   As he walked across the barren ground, his eye was caught by the glint of a molar tooth among the desert pebbles.

3.   Now, as first light paled the eastern sky, the Marines were hacking foxholes into the barren ground, sweat streaking the sand plastered to their faces.

4.   Runoff over barren ground was rapid, resulting in flooding.

5.   Sheep and goats, watched over by a herder on horseback, search for grass on almost barren ground near Bayindeligar.

6.   Soon, on the barren ground above the grave where nothing had grown before, flowers appear.

7.   The Old Testament warns against the sin of Onan -- the spilling of seed on barren ground.

8.   Their shadows dusted the barren ground by firelight as the soldiers clapped and urged them on, two dancers, a spark of something.

9.   They live on the moors -- the high barren ground -- of the British Isles.

10.   Yet surviving on this barren ground there were gazelles, blue foxes, snow leopards and wild Asian asses.