1.   Over the winter the distinctive bare earth is ground up and massed into sharp ruts by tractor tyres.

2.   The floor was of bare earth, and a ring of wooden poles supported the roof.

3.   There is nothing to be seen on the spot but bare earth.

4.   There were no flowers or grass, just bare earth.

5.   Its foliage mat, a luscious maroon in the cold, provides a welcome touch of elegance in a season of bare earth.

6.   Many slept in tents or on bare earth.

7.   One day the horses in a nearby pasture were lying on bare earth in the warm afternoon sun.

8.   When the fields began burning, the fires jumped the narrow strips of bare earth that farmers typically clear around their land.

9.   People were crowded under tents with sheets spread over the bare earth.

10.   Children sat on a wooden plank or the bare earth that served as a floor.