Midden used in a sentence

Midden in a sentence as a noun

Our midden heaps will contain billions of them.

> a big pile of garden wasteThat's called a midden and it's a great way to get rats.

Margret took the birds outside around the house and buried them in the midden with a spade.

But the castle midden was clean and fresh compared to what lay within the Reprise’s local net.

I like rummaging through the midden mound of the techpress reading what the tribespeople have to say.

They're dropping those brands into the midden heap that is the "marketplace" where you can't be sure of what you're getting.

I thought I had it bad, but I once saw a video of a boy diving into a midden with a stick to unclog it.

""That's because I can afford food every day.""But isn't it heavy when you have to carry it to the midden heap?

Because human cities didnt have gigantic midden piles before?

A lot of what we previously know about societies comes from things like midden piles, literal trash heaps of discarded **** nobody wanted.

Another Vernor Vinge concept I love is the "software midden heap", layers of software standing on the shoulders of and papering over the bugs of earlier software.

That's why we supplement history, which is the study of the written record, with archaeology, which is the study of the non-written record, such as midden heaps and old homesteads and so on.

Without a very strong culture around testing and deep, continuous investment in infrastructure and tools, a monolithic repo would quickly devolve to being a giant midden heap of code.

Archaeologists are forced to derive much of what they know about vanished cultures from bits of ephemera from their daily lives -- things you'd find in a midden heap, like shards of discarded pottery, spat-out plant seeds and gnawed animal bones, and the like.

Now there are so many programmers doing so many different things that we might have no shared knowledge, and so much of what most people do is reimplementing or papering over the flaws in some previous piece of software, layer upon layer like a giant midden.