crusty

To make it a party, serve some good crusty bread and salt-flecked butter on the side, along with a bottle of crisp Californian or Italian white wine.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 19, 2026

French bakeries sold crusty baguettes and flaky croissants with government backing Friday, defying labour unions arguing that May 1 should remain a day of compulsory rest.

From Barron's ● May 1, 2026

“The greens are already getting firm, crusty, and bouncy.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 9, 2026

You can also use ground chia seeds if you prefer your crusty layer to have a less coarse texture.

From Salon ● Mar. 31, 2026

“Dude, gotta haul it if you don’t wanna get the crusty leftovers.”

From "Liar, Liar" by Gary Paulsen

For springier, crustier bread, bake your dough in a Dutch oven like J. Kenji López-Alt.

From Salon ● Jan. 9, 2022

The result is something vaguely like a seasoned fry, but a bit crustier and cakier, with a taste of dried onion and black pepper.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 12, 2019

“Plays the game the right way” is to baseball attributes as pitchers’ wins are to statistics — quaint, irrelevant and increasingly obsolete, except among a certain subset of generally older and crustier baseball people.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 23, 2018

At one public meeting, a white-haired man – one of the crustier opposing voices – tripped and fell, and Khalil rushed across the room, thinking he might need medical assistance.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 8, 2018

He was shorter in the grain than ever, crustier to every one than she had ever known him––and toward Nan herself fiercely resentful.

From Nan of Music Mountain by N. C. (Newell Convers) Wyeth

But what makes or breaks Uber is the same as the crustiest old taxi cartel: the drivers making the trips.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 28, 2023

Its sharp points bite into everything from the crustiest bread to the squishiest tomato, producing crisp, clean slices.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 23, 2020

It should be clear now too, to even the crustiest of old dinosaurs, that it’s not about lecturing women to toughen up, and learn to brush off wandering paws more lightly.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 31, 2017

That one and two others, “Broadcast News,” a triangle set in the news business, and “As Good as It Gets,” in which Jack Nicholson played the crustiest of curmudgeons, were best picture nominees.

From New York Times ● Mar. 22, 2010

At Christmas sometimes the children sing carols, not with much success so far as melody goes, but otherwise successfully enough; for recollections of the past soften the hearts of the crustiest.

From Wild Life in a Southern County by Richard Jefferies