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
At the annual Louisiana Crawfish Festival in St. Bernard Parish, fans chowing down on crawfish pasta, bread, pies and etouffee said the crustaceans have been limited so far this season.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 22, 2024
“Giant crawfish hiding under rocks sounds terrifying, but the other stuff sounds great,” I said.
From "Hope Springs" by Jaime Berry
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 Vizetelly, Ernest Alfred
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
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)
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 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
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)
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
He crawfished backward on his hands and knees.
From The Heart of the Range by White, William Patterson
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
