Orson trotted off the street, across a barren strip of land, to the levee.

The barren strip of land has been fought over several times by the two nations.

The barren strip of land that bordered the line had been proclaimed off limits to civilians, and unauthorized persons were shot without warning.

The ship touched down on a barren strip of ground a mile beyond Cherokee's only Tradertown.

On what once was a barren strip of land there are now rows of small brick houses, communal kitchens, a makeshift school and a brickmaking factory.

They found a glacier, a tongue of ice that led them down from the icecap to the barren strip of land.

Flying over snow-capped peaks and into a thick fog, the helicopter set down on a barren strip of rocks between two glaciers.

Ria carefully eased the Porsche off the winding road and parked on a barren, flat strip overlooking a small valley.

And part of his mandate was to generate excitement about the site, a barren strip of land on the edge of La Villette park in working-class northeastern Paris.

Our barren strip was transformed.