midden

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Recent Examples of midden Every man must take part in the work, and even the officers cover the middens and feed the sick. Literary Hub, 4 Dec. 2025 Human poop was found in a 30-inch-deep midden inside the Cave of the Dead Children, according to a study published Oct. 22 in the journal. Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 23 Oct. 2025 To protect their middens, woodrats pile dry leaves at the den entrances. Karl Schneider, IndyStar, 15 Oct. 2025 Also plugging into the idea of tourism as education, marine biologist Cormac McGinley runs leave-no-trace fossil discovery walks and tours of the Burren’s lunar-like landscape, which take in sea caves, ancient middens, and color-popping anemones. Sarah James, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for midden
Recent Examples of Synonyms for midden
Noun
  • With no petrol to run dustbin trucks, rubbish is being burnt in the streets.
    The Week UK, TheWeek, 31 May 2026
  • Strong suction and a rolling brush effectively scoop up dirt, crumbs, and debris from the floors before returning to the base to empty into the 3-liter dustbin.
    Cierra Cowan, PC Magazine, 24 May 2026
Noun
  • This source of damage is easily avoided by purchasing manure and hay from a reputable source and asking if the source material was treated with aminopyralid.
    Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 29 May 2026
  • Problems begin when fertilizer, livestock manure, septic waste and industrial runoff wash into rivers and groundwater.
    Ryan Brennan May 27, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 27 May 2026
Noun
  • Crews are seen pouring water on a massive junkyard fire in Opa-locka on Tuesday, May 26, 2026.
    Marybel Rodriguez, CBS News, 26 May 2026
  • About 125 people in apartments east of the junkyard were evacuated.
    Sarah Perkel, USA Today, 26 May 2026
Noun
  • As late as the 19th century, the most reliable source of usable nitrogen was guano harvested from islands off the coast of Peru, a resource so valuable and rare that nations went to war over it.
    Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 29 May 2026
  • Their guano is mined from caves for fertilizer.
    The Conversation, Fortune, 14 May 2026
Noun
  • Eco effort The hotel is marching along a path to zero-landfill waste, helped in part by reductions in single-use plastics and paper materials, plus a swift recycling program.
    Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 June 2026
  • The pioneering project at the University of Pennsylvania Stuart Weitzman School of Design is working to create environmentally friendly alternatives to concrete and epoxy while also reducing the waste going into landfills.
    Marcella Baietto, CBS News, 1 June 2026
Noun
  • To help the herd accept the calf after his time away, rescuers coated him in fresh elephant dung to mask any unfamiliar scents.
    Moná Thomas, PEOPLE, 22 May 2026
  • Release of dung increases soil organic carbon and helps build soil structure that improves water filtration and soil aeration.
    Paige Stein, Hartford Courant, 4 May 2026
Noun
  • When Job, who is on a dunghill, oozing pus, after the death of his entire family, accuses God of needless cruelty, God appears in the form of a whirlwind, chastising Job for expecting something as measly as fairness from the Creator of the Universe.
    Audrey Wollen, New Yorker, 6 May 2026
  • In Shakespeare, Cade’s corpse ends up tossed over a dunghill.
    Alex Beam, BostonGlobe.com, 2 May 2018
Noun
  • If, for David Lynch, ideas are like fish in a river, then for Danish provocateur Nicolas Winding Refn, those ideas are like chunks of excrement in an exploded sewage pipe.
    Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 19 May 2026
  • Hantavirus is contracted through inhalation or contact with rodent excrement or saliva.
    Antonio Pequeño IV, Forbes.com, 9 May 2026

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“Midden.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/midden. Accessed 4 Jun. 2026.

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