crawfish

He makes crawfish, listens to Frankie Beverly and Maze, and doesn’t ingratiate himself with the sports media machine, largely a white institutional space.

From Salon ● Oct. 21, 2026

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

In the small creek that wormed its way down through our fields, I caught crawfish with my bare hands.

From "Where the Red Fern Grows" by Wilson Rawls

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 James Branch Cabell

A great number of crawfishes had arrived from Germany that morning in cases and hampers, and the market was also crowded with river fish from Holland and England.

From The Fat and the Thin by Ernest Alfred Vizetelly

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 Lane Cooper

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 Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury) Cobb

Spiders, thousand-legs, crawfishes and even earth-worms are often spoken of as bugs.

From An Elementary Study of Insects by Leonard Haseman

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

She recovered the card and was standing erect when he crawfished up from the floor.

From The She Boss A Western Story by Arthur Preston Hankins

He crawfished along the face of the slope, until he could see beyond it.

From The Portygee by Joseph Crosby Lincoln

He crawfished backward on his hands and knees.

From The Heart of the Range by William Patterson White

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 even knows how to go crawfishing, even though that isn’t technically fish.

From "King and the Dragonflies" by Kacen Callender

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