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Examples of crawdad in a Sentence
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Of course, live bait such as worms, crawdads, and small baitfish work well for catching both species.
—Shaye Baker, Field & Stream, 14 Sep. 2023
During long periods of low water, baitfish and crawdads are confined to constricted pools.
—Bryan Hendricks, Arkansas Online, 23 July 2023
Most of my fond childhood memories of Arkansas happened in Hale Holler: walking in the woods with Jay and Joyce, walking in the woods by myself, catching crawdads in the creek that ran through the property with my brother James and our cousin Ike.
—Benjamin Hale, Harper's Magazine, 10 July 2023
There are some calls to lighten the prison population, evictions and foreclosures have been suspended, and the crawdads will cook in Mobile.
—Bob Sims | Rsims@al.com, al, 7 Apr. 2020
Crayfish, also known as crawfish or crawdads, are identified with Cajun Country, especially Louisiana.
—Liz Biro, Indianapolis Star, 17 Feb. 2020
Instead of soybeans, the field is a graveyard of crawdads, their burrows cracking in the heat.
—Autumn Schoolman, Indianapolis Star, 4 Feb. 2020
If crawdads are on your Super Bowl menu, order and reserve the little critters now, says David Conger, owner of Capt’n Dave’s Seafood Market in Plano, which sells 8,000 to 12,000 pounds of crawfish a week during the season’s peak.
—Kim Pierce, Dallas News, 14 Jan. 2020
Crawdads 1375 Garden Highway What's new: A half-dozen dishes recently joined the menu, such as ahi nachos with ponzu and macadamia nuts, grilled cheese with crab claw meat, and a Creole burrito with cod, andouille sausage and crawdads.
—Allen Pierleoni, sacbee, 18 May 2018
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Word History
Etymology
alteration of crawfish
First Known Use
circa 1905, in the meaning defined above
Dictionary Entries Near crawdad
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“Crawdad.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/crawdad. Accessed 10 Jun. 2024.
Kids Definition
crawdad
noun
craw·dad
ˈkrȯ-ˌdad
dialect
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