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
• To protect their middens, woodrats pile dry leaves at the den entrances.
  — Karl Schneider, IndyStar, 15 Oct. 2025
• The menu has ranged from mammoth to lemurs to seafood, scattered through caves and collected in middens.
  — Brian Switek, Smithsonian, 30 Jan. 2017
• Known to be pack rats, Allegheny woodrats will store large piles of food, called middens, in their dens.
  — Karl Schneider, IndyStar, 15 Oct. 2025
• The oldest of these middens were created about 7,000 years ago.
  — Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 20 May 2019
• At others middens, livestock was reared locally, according to the study.
  — Lauren Liebhaber, Miami Herald, 11 Sep. 2025
• This and oral reports evidenced that two even larger middens once existed nearby.
  — Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Feb. 2025
• One of these middens spanned an area the size of five football pitches and was packed with the remains of the feast—up to 15 million bone fragments.
  — Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 13 Sep. 2025
• The middens, made from bits of plants and covered in ancient rodent urine, held DNA that was well preserved.
  — Quanta Magazine, 29 May 2019
• 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
• The restroom is around the corner, reached by walking past the mosquito-breeding experiment that is a midden of old tires.
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 26 July 2023
• 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
• In later centuries, European settlers viewed the middens as a resource.
  — Murray Carpenter, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2017
• The midden is a testament to the volume of shellfish eaten by Hoabinhians.
  — Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Feb. 2025
• Remnants of shell middens (high mounds of shells accumulated from long term group settlement) can still be found within the reserve.
  — Kelsey Glennon, Southern Living, 7 Mar. 2026
• In many places, shell middens begin as refuse piles and eventually become parts of the foundations of buildings or settlements.
  — ArsTechnica, 18 May 2026
• 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
• Although the bones of fish, cattle, sheep and pig were pulled out of the middens (halos of garbage dumped from the huts above), there was no evidence of human casualties.
  — Franz Lidz, New York Times, 19 Mar. 2024
• 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
• 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
• Securing Holguin’s tribe’s blessing to dig at a midden can require years of bureaucracy and tricky in-person politics.
  — Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 7 Sep. 2021
• 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
• The Granada cemetery and midden, a discard mound, extended to some 25 acres originally.
  — Andres Viglucci, Miami Herald, 30 June 2026
• 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
• But this is the first time archaeologists have actually unearthed a midden with evidence that people added to it regularly for so many generations.
  — ArsTechnica, 18 May 2026
• Now, researchers plan to extend their investigations to nearby early settlement sites to determine if Culasawani is a midden or muddle.
  — Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 4 Apr. 2026
• In East Chisenbury, sheep dominated the feast, and while the midden contained hundreds of thousands of animals, research showed they were, in contrast, locally sourced.
  — Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 13 Sep. 2025
• Additional evidence, like shell middens that bore evidence of having been eroded by strong currents, hinted at a potential paleotsunami.
  — Nathaniel Scharping, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Feb. 2023