How to Use crawdad in a Sentence

crawdad

noun
  • But most bait users stick to tried-and-true oldies — minnows and worms, crawdads and crickets.
    — Byron W. Dalrymple, Outdoor Life, 4 June 2026
  • Of course, live bait such as worms, crawdads, and small baitfish work well for catching both species.
    — Shaye Baker, Field & Stream, 14 Sep. 2023
  • They're also known as craydids, crawdads, and rock lobsters, and they're found in swamps, rivers, and lakes.
    — Katie Rosenhouse, Southern Living, 8 May 2026
  • Instead of soybeans, the field is a graveyard of crawdads, their burrows cracking in the heat.
    — Autumn Schoolman, Indianapolis Star, 4 Feb. 2020
  • Few freshwater fish can resist a live crayfish (aka crawfish or crawdad).
    — Chad Mason, Outdoor Life, 3 June 2026
  • The occasional crawdad skittered backward across the tops of my toes, and minnows nibbled at my leg hairs.
    — David Frese, kansascity, 27 Apr. 2018
  • It’s also known for an annual crawdad festival each summer that draws tourists by the thousands.
    — Chris Biderman, Sacramento Bee, 24 Jan. 2025
  • How Gibson likes to cook his crawdads is by taking the time to season the inside of the shell, because that’s where the meat is.
    — Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 20 Feb. 2026
  • Largemouth bass continue to be the top species as the bass are holding in current and becoming very active, feeding on the abundant threadfin shad and crawdads.
    — sacbee, 10 Oct. 2017
  • In summer, Griz’s favorite color is the traditional crawdad (not the newer red and black), but good luck finding that in stock somewhere.
    — Alex Robinson, Outdoor Life, 18 June 2026
  • There are some calls to lighten the prison population, evictions and foreclosures have been suspended, and the crawdads will cook in Mobile.
    — Bob Sims | [email protected], al, 7 Apr. 2020
  • Southerners tell colorful stories, and eat colorful foods like orange crawdads, turnip greens, drippy red barbecue sauce, homegrown tomatoes and sweet potato pie.
    — Leslie Anne Tarabella, al, 29 Nov. 2019
  • The crawfish—also known in English as crayfish, mudbug and crawdad and in German as Sumpfkrebs or swamp crab—is a freshwater cousin of the ocean lobster and shrimp.
    — William Boston, WSJ, 8 May 2018
  • According to McNeill, Banklick Creek is a viable, healthy ecosystem that supports wildlife from deer, fox, coyote, beaver and mink, to fish, frogs and crawdads.
    — Melissa Reinert, Cincinnati.com, 15 Sep. 2017
  • Link, along with several other waterfowl biologists, also cited the growing prevalence of crawdad farming and replacement of rice with sugar cane.
    — Natalie Krebs, Outdoor Life, 14 Jan. 2026
  • The festival was not affiliated with the crawdad festival held this weekend at Cal Expo in Sacramento.
    — Lezlie Sterling, Sacramento Bee, 17 June 2024
  • Some of my happiest childhood memories were spent with Grandma Joy at Blue Rock State Park, catching crawdads in the stream and exploring the woods together.
    — Brad Ryan, PEOPLE, 13 June 2026
  • Crayfish, also known as crawfish or crawdads, are identified with Cajun Country, especially Louisiana.
    — Liz Biro, Indianapolis Star, 17 Feb. 2020

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