A gloved hand appeared, forcing back the barren branches of the oak.

He rides a horse and wears a crown of barren branches.

By the time the crew came, my mourning was finished, and so were they: barren branches, some already black.

The disciples are warned that barren branches are pruned by the vinedresser.

This time his plants were left in a gnarl of barren branches, looking more like witch's hair than lush orange trees.

New spring leaves covered the once barren branches, and they glowed silver in the light of the crescent moon.

Nearer at hand, a breeze stirred barren, low-hanging branches.

Clouds raced past through a lacing of barren branches above their little fire.

The only things in silhouette are the trees in the park; to me their barren branches seem like writhing witches' fingers.

Trees rushed by on either side, their barren branches like petrified arms thrown out in alarm.