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
Some said they have yet to attend a crawfish boil, popular during Lent when many in the heavily Catholic south Louisiana seek alternatives to meat.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 22, 2024
On the tiles, the mermaid guy in the crawfish chariot was coming closer to the palace.
From "The Last Olympian" by Rick Riordan
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
Spiders, thousand-legs, crawfishes and even earth-worms are often spoken of as bugs.
From An Elementary Study of Insects by Leonard Haseman
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 Lane Cooper
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 Jules Steeg
If I crawfished before my own countrymen, what could I be expected to do when dealing with America's adversaries?
From Time Magazine Archive
But did you miss the story of his crawfished admission that he was conversing through his chapeau ?
From Time Magazine Archive
The three Hatfield men had crawfished back into a dense dewberry patch, while the three in the shop had crawled into the loft and hidden among the miscellaneous rubbish.
From The Red Debt Echoes from Kentucky by Everett MacDonald
This morning Buddy crawfished backward away from the brink of the overhanging rock.
From The Red Debt Echoes from Kentucky by Everett MacDonald
He crawfished along the face of the slope, until he could see beyond it.
From The Portygee by Joseph Crosby Lincoln
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
