crawfish

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

Louisiana generates anywhere from 175 million to 200 million pounds of crawfish — contributing $500 million to the state’s economy annually, according to Gov. Jeff Landry’s office.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 22, 2024

I could close my eyes and almost see him, humped up and waddling along, fishing under the banks with his delicate little paws for crawfish, frogs, and minnows.

From "Where the Red Fern Grows" by Wilson Rawls

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

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

From An Elementary Study of Insects by Leonard Haseman

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

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

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

And all the other chaps crawfished up and flung themselves round the corner and sidled into the bar after Dave.

From On the Track by Henry Lawson

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 Walt Mason

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 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