interstice
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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 color is still left in every sheltered interstice of the foliage.
From The Stones of Venice, Volume II (of 3), by John Ruskin
Little boys, holding three or four onions in their hands, creep between the people, wriggling their way through every interstice, and asking for custom in whining tones, as if seeking charity.
From A History of the Cries of London Ancient and Modern by Charles Hindley
Moreover the Jâbâlas speak in their text of the highest Lord as being in the interstice between the top of the head and the chin.
From The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Sankaracarya Sacred Books of the East, Volume 1 by George Thibaut
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
This narrative fills the interstices of the show.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 18, 2022
In a crowd, the body tries to be smaller, contracting in odd ways to find clear passage, shaping itself to the interstices of precious empty space.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 4, 2021
The guitar poked into interstices with pings or echoey chords or scratchy syncopation or dissonant counterpoint.
From New York Times ● Dec. 23, 2020
A very soft place would also appear poorly reflective because of the many interstices between individual sand grains.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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Ender's Game
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