crusty
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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
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
After a supper of hot soup and crusty bread, I did my evening chores and headed straight to bed.
From "Willodeen" by Katherine Applegate
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
Harrison Ford, coming next, was even crustier than usual.
From Washington Times ● Jan. 7, 2019
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
And as soon as she beheld him, Mrs. Errington was convinced of the justice of Betty Grimshaw's remark, that her brother-in-law seemed to have grown closer and crustier than ever of late.
From A Charming Fellow, Volume II (of 3) by Frances Eleanor Trollope
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
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
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