How to Use crawfish in a Sentence

crawfish

noun
  • Part of the gym roof peeled away like the shell of a crawfish.
    New York Times, 8 Mar. 2022
  • Find some of the best Houston spots for crawfish in the photos above...
    Rebecca Hennes, Houston Chronicle, 29 Jan. 2020
  • The dish is finished with a crawfish and a splash of creole sauce.
    Los Angeles Times, 5 Feb. 2022
  • Cordúa treats Flay to a soft-shell crawfish taco and a quail Wellington.
    Therese Odell, Chron, 4 Nov. 2021
  • The shrimp and crab plate is a crowd favorite and the truck serves crawfish during the season.
    Courtney Wilson, Chron, 20 Apr. 2022
  • So Fish City had plenty of crawfish, even at fire-sale prices of $5 a pound.
    Mike Sutter, ExpressNews.com, 19 Mar. 2020
  • Davis set up his food truck here over the spring to sell crawfish and was impressed by the response.
    Ian McNulty, NOLA.com, 31 Aug. 2020
  • In New Orleans, a jab can get you a bucket of crawfish.
    Billy Kobin, The Courier-Journal, 14 May 2021
  • Don't miss the shrimp and grits or the crawfish etouffee and do leave room for the only dessert on the menu: Maw-Maw's Bread Pudding.
    Meena Thiruvengadam, Travel + Leisure, 2 Mar. 2021
  • There, clad in a bib, the hungry use their hands to break apart crab legs and crawfish and dig deep to get the meat from clams and mussels.
    cleveland, 10 Jan. 2020
  • Fresh crawfish is available by the pound both in the restaurant or to-go for only $9.95 per pound.
    Dallas News, 1 Mar. 2022
  • Once those fields are drained come spring, the crawfish are fully mature and meaty.
    Los Angeles Times, 28 Apr. 2022
  • Then the Great Creator instructed crawfish to dive down and bring up a bit of mud.
    Boyce Upholt, Wired, 23 July 2022
  • After trapping the crawfish for a while, the children tipped them back into the stream.
    Vanessa Hua, SFChronicle.com, 4 Sep. 2019
  • Treat dad to some steamy plates of crab, lobster, crawfish, and veggies.
    Gege Reed, The Courier-Journal, 13 June 2022
  • Such places harbor bass forage, like minnows and crawfish, and those are the best places to fish.
    Popular Science, 1 June 2020
  • At least one full-fledged crawfish boil was conducted along the route.
    al, 30 Jan. 2022
  • Find French Quarter favorites from po’ boys and gumbo to fried shrimp and crawfish by the pound.
    Abigail Rosenthal, Chron, 4 Mar. 2022
  • But some can also be used to catch bream, crawfish, shrimp and other species used for bait.
    The Editors, Field & Stream, 6 Sep. 2019
  • Other fresh seafood such as shrimp, scallops, crawfish, and squid should last three to six months in the freezer.
    Hannah Jeon, Good Housekeeping, 23 Mar. 2020
  • Variants add crawfish or crab to make a true bayou boil.
    Rand Richards Cooper, Hartford Courant, 31 Jan. 2023
  • The restaurant serves steamy plates of crab, lobster, crawfish and veggies.
    Ray Padilla, The Courier-Journal, 27 Feb. 2024
  • Blackened fish is served over grit cakes with crawfish and pepper cream sauce.
    Will Coviello, NOLA.com, 12 Oct. 2020
  • And a whole lobster showed up with barnacles on its body and the taste of creek water, like an overblown crawfish.
    Mike Sutter, ExpressNews.com, 12 Dec. 2019
  • There’s also the seafood carbonara with shrimp, jumbo lump crab and crawfish tails.
    William Thornton | Wthornton@al.com, al, 20 Aug. 2019
  • After a certain time, the bar will offer crawfish by the pound only.
    Rebecca Hennes, Houston Chronicle, 25 Feb. 2020
  • When smallies are feeding on crawfish on a rocky bottom, rig a tube or a craw on a jig and hop it along the bottom.
    Dave Hurteau, Field & Stream, 22 Apr. 2020
  • Fat Tuesday has just passed, but the craving for crawfish is still going strong.
    San Antonio Express-News, 18 Feb. 2021
  • After the boat ride and a huge pile of crawfish and corn, Charity asks the men to join her for dinner later that night.
    Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 25 July 2023
  • However, severe drought and extreme heat in 2023 made the ground too dry for crawfish to burrow and lay eggs.
    Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 7 Mar. 2024

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