crusty

I kept tearing off pieces of crusty bread and dragging them through the oil before spooning the beans on top.

From Salon ● Jun. 16, 2026

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

In that vein, every version of “Amadeus” casts a younger heartthrob as Mozart against whoever plays the crusty Salieri.

From Salon ● May 16, 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

They walked to the edge of the school yard, and then stood outside in the clear air, in the sun, breathing the fragrance of fresh wet snow and new bread, crusty and warm.

From "The Birchbark House" by Louise Erdrich

For a crustier roll, choose a lean dough.

From Salon ● Oct. 2, 2021

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

Harrison Ford, coming next, was even crustier than usual.

From Washington Times ● Jan. 7, 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

But he had never married, and, with no boys of his own to keep him young in heart, he had grown crankier and crustier as he grew older.

From The Rushton Boys at Rally Hall Or, Great Days in School and Out by Spencer Davenport

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

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

If Seattle Symphony maestro Ludovic Morlot and his band really hit it out of the ballpark, even the crustiest crowd may get carried away clapping, too.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 9, 2016

Just before the Reagan-Thatcher years, her parents moved to London and bought a maisonette in Belgravia, home to England’s crustiest upper crust and even to Margaret Thatcher herself.

From New York Times ● Nov. 2, 2011

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