How to pronounce barren
Listen to barren in real sentences, spoken by real people in public video clips that play here, on YouTongue. No dictionary recording — the word as it is actually used.
“barren” in real sentences
258 clips in the index · 52 American · 50 British · 22 Australian. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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Dried Most vegetation and barren mountains.
ABC News In-depth · hear it here
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The earth would be forever barren.
60 Minutes · hear it here
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a soccer field with barren soil.
CDC · hear it here
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bleak and barren heights before sebastopol
British Library · hear it here
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of barren. Conversation gives you the stress, the vowel reduction and the speed that people actually use — and they differ between accents. YouTongue plays the surrounding sentence, so you hear the word in the rhythm it belongs to.