1.   Thousands of years ago the surface was barren desert.

2.   Years of intensive farming have turned the area into a barren desert.

3.   He also wants to use the water to irrigate barren desert land.

4.   As nomads become more and more like ranchers, they graze far too many sheep across a greatly reduced area, turning seasonal rangeland into barren desert.

5.   At the time, we were crossing the barren Iraqi desert, lined with patches of short brush and the occasional large picture of Saddam Hussein.

6.   A young mother looks out over the barren high desert, her three small children huddled behind her skirts.

7.   Most is barren desert soil with little strategic importance to either side.

8.   The city of Phoenix springs up almost overnight from the barren Sonoran desert.

9.   The sandstone-colored concrete blends with the barren desert that stretches behind the building toward the mountainous horizon.

10.   Clouds of dark smoke rolled across the barren desert.