If this aim is achieved Europe will become a barren waste.

"All day I faced the barren waste without a taste of cool, clear, water."

All day I faced this barren waste without a taste of cold, clean water.

Now there were less than a couple of thousand people in the whole barren waste.

It led across the barren waste of sand straight away from their cool jungle home.

How could they risk that barren waste, without being sure it wouldn't kill them just because they were there?

She kindled a distant star of fire even in that barren waste.

The barren waste stretched all around, with never a tree or blade of grass.

I happened across a likely teacher after about a week in those barren wastes.

The path they stood on gleamed like silver through a barren waste.