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
It’s seafood night, and Mom is making her special crab boil: crab legs, corn on the cob, andouille sausage, crawfish, jumbo shrimp, and small red potatoes.
From "Watch Us Rise" by Renée Watson and Ellen Hagan
Once I caught five crawfishes there, while Marian waited on the bank; and afterward we found an old tomato-can and boiled them in it, and they came out a really gorgeous crimson.
From The Cords of Vanity A Comedy of Shirking by James Branch Cabell
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
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
He crawfished along the face of the slope, until he could see beyond it.
From The Portygee by Joseph Crosby Lincoln
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 cautiously toward this lone vehicle, dragging his rifle after him through the dust of the road.
From The Red Debt Echoes from Kentucky by Everett MacDonald
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
