How to Use midden in a Sentence

midden

noun

• The midden was layered in white bands in the ground stacked head-high along the shore.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 6 Aug. 2019
• The menu has ranged from mammoth to lemurs to seafood, scattered through caves and collected in middens.
  — Brian Switek, Smithsonian, 30 Jan. 2017
• The middens, made from bits of plants and covered in ancient rodent urine, held DNA that was well preserved.
  — Quanta Magazine, 29 May 2019
• The oldest of these middens were created about 7,000 years ago.
  — Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 20 May 2019
• The first two hunter-gatherer graves were found in 1875 in a shell midden, an ancient pile of waste like mussel shells and fish bones, in Riņņukalns, Latvia.
  — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 June 2021
• Seabirds are mentioned in Norse sagas as early as the 9th century, and their bones have been found in the middens of Viking settlements.
  — Cheryl Katz, Smithsonian, 17 Jan. 2017
• This untouched wilderness has miles of trails that wind through spruce and fir trees, past Native American shell middens and tide pools.
  — Mona Gable, Vogue, 10 Dec. 2017
• This sort of caching is common among squirrels, and the animals have been known to stockpile all sorts of interesting things in their middens, or store-rooms.
  — Jessica Haines, National Geographic, 16 Mar. 2018
• The specimens were lost during World War II and relocated in 2011, when researchers returned to the midden and found another two graves.
  — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 June 2021
• In later centuries, European settlers viewed the middens as a resource.
  — Murray Carpenter, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2017
• Erosion has already washed away cemeteries and historic Native American sites, called middens, along the state's coast.
  — Sara Sneath, NOLA.com, 30 May 2017
• For a variety of reasons, rat middens make excellent stockpiles of ancient DNA.
  — Marion Renault, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2020
• Shell middens are layers of cooking remains, particularly bones, shell and grease, deposited through years of human use of a site.
  — Lynda V. Mapes, The Seattle Times, 30 June 2017
• Pack rats, also known as wood rats, are notorious for collecting an odd assortment of items from their surroundings to make their nests, called middens.
  — Sadie Witkowski, Smithsonian, 15 Nov. 2019
• As a specialist in Maya civilization, Rathje was well practiced in the study of middens, heaps of ancient rubbish that had provided his field with most of its knowledge about Mesoamerican culture.
  — Jonathon Keats, Discover Magazine, 13 Aug. 2018
• The rodents create huge piles of food called middens that can keep them going for several seasons—and are sometimes also discovered by future generations of squirrels.
  — Brian Gordon Green, National Geographic, 9 June 2018
• Around midafternoon on a recent July day, on a small island called Kakmakimiłh or Keith Island, the sounds of trowels crunching on shell middens and hoses pouring water on screens was interrupted by a series of excited shouts (and a few expletives).
  — Lorraine Boissoneault, Smithsonian, 27 Aug. 2019
• Marneweck and colleagues tracked more than 200 individual white rhinos in South Africa from different populations and took samples of their poop after the animals visited their middens.
  — Carrie Arnold, National Geographic, 11 Jan. 2017
• Englehardt finds ample material on a fictional campus, this time in Arkansas at Ozarka University, driving distance from rural communities where four-wheelers flatten the blackberries between diaper middens.
  — Washington Post, 16 Sep. 2019

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