crawfish
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OAKDALE, La.—This southwestern Louisiana city of 6,600 is home to a federal prison, a plywood mill and a couple of takeout crawfish joints.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 21, 2026
Government data shows crab landings down on previous years but catches of lobster, crawfish and scallops stable.
From BBC ● Dec. 22, 2025
When Kelsey Barnard Clark won the sixteenth season of "Top Chef," set in Kentucky, she clinched victory with a dish that defied fine dining expectations: cornbread and buttermilk with crawfish, boiled peanuts, cucumber and watermelon.
From Salon ● Mar. 6, 2025
The Clesies said their menu will include the dirty rice as well as boiled crawfish, crawfish etouffee and something called a “messi clesi,” which is a combination of the dirty rice and etouffee.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 26, 2024
I sat down next to her and looked into the little pool below our feet, where crawfish were darting around.
From "Turtles All the Way Down" by John Green
On the river-shore crawfishes were lazily creeping over the gravel.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. October, 1878. by Various
We drew prancing starfishes; frogs in mortal combat; hydra-headed worms; stately crawfishes, standing on their tails, bearing aloft umbrellas; and grotesque fishes with gaping mouths and staring eyes.
From Louis Agassiz as a Teacher; illustrative extracts on his method of instruction by Cooper, Lane
If during his infancy he has seen without fear frogs, serpents, crawfishes, he will, when grown up, see without shrinking any animal that may be shown him.
From Émile or, Concerning Education; Extracts by Steeg, Jules
Once I caught five crawfishes there, while Marian waited on the bank; and afterward we found an old tomato-can and boiled them in it, and they came out a really gorgeous crimson.
From The Cords of Vanity A Comedy of Shirking by Cabell, James Branch
His pedler's pack was buried in the mud so deep that not even the probing crawfishes could find it.
From The Escape of Mr. Trimm His Plight and other Plights by Cobb, Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury)
But did you miss the story of his crawfished admission that he was conversing through his chapeau ?
From Time Magazine Archive
If I crawfished before my own countrymen, what could I be expected to do when dealing with America's adversaries?
From Time Magazine Archive
Rick tugged at Scotty's suit, then crawfished backward through the marsh grass until he was sure the night watchers could not see him.
From The Flying Stingaree by Goodwin, Harold L. (Harold Leland)
This morning Buddy crawfished backward away from the brink of the overhanging rock.
From The Red Debt Echoes from Kentucky by MacDonald, Everett
A spider was spinning its web by the wall; now losing, now winning, now taking a fall; though often it tumbled, it breathed not a sob, nor crawfished nor grumbled, but stuck to its job.
From Rippling Rhymes by Mason, Walt
Brown would tell stories about crawfishing and his grandmother.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 21, 2016
He even tries to order — hoping to understand — his father’s life in “Map”: “Daddy goes./Trolling and trawling and crawfishing and crabbing and bass-boating/and trestle-jumping bare into rust-brackish water.”
From New York Times ● Oct. 18, 2010
He put in two varied years laboring as a longshoreman, crawfishing, even drew pay as a hired hand on an outback farm before his bank balance was equal to re-equipping Sheila111.
From Time Magazine Archive
He was hiding down by the bayou, in Old Man Martin’s crawfishing shack, and Martin got a nasty surprise one early afternoon when he found that Sanders boy sleeping in his cot.
From "King and the Dragonflies" by Kacen Callender
He even knows how to go crawfishing, even though that isn’t technically fish.
From "King and the Dragonflies" by Kacen Callender
