interstice

Dark in truck except for crack of light and fresh air coming through small interstice between back doors.”

From New York Times ● Aug. 6, 2013

Alejandra therefore sits at the exact interstice of prohibition and possibility.

From Slate ● Feb. 1, 2013

The precipice Hath part, and parts in many an interstice Lurk of the tangled woodland—no light quest To find.

From The Bacchae of Euripides by Euripedes

But, though the perpendicular interstice be destroyed, the horizontal one extends entirely through the whole work.

From With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 1 by Various

Behind the cottage rose the bare mountain-side, covered with loose stones and rocks, among which in every available interstice the diligent peasants had sown corn and barley.

From The Call of the Blood by Orson Lowell

If Joan Didion had an overarching preoccupation as a journalist and novelist, it was to find interstices where truth and myth blend into each other.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 10, 2025

On the roof, a 28½-foot travertine bench is installed along one side of a long pool that’s horizontally bisected by five thick concrete walls; Kalach, 63, calls the resulting interstices “cubicles.”

From New York Times ● Sep. 20, 2023

Today cornfields stretch to the horizon, but crowded into their interstices are fragments of the prairie that once covered this part of the state.

From Scientific American ● Feb. 13, 2023

Given how much executive authority lies tucked away in the interstices of federal law, just waiting to be exploited, it’s remarkable that presidents have not abused it more blatantly.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 3, 2022

And one pleasant summer afternoon, deep in the interstices of one of his interminable lectures, he was visited by a revelation that was to alter radically the future of astronomy.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan