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 presence of death—infinite, menacing, for ever treacherously active—filled every interstice of the poem.
From The Buried Temple by Alfred Sutro
For many hours before her capture she had been compressed into an interstice behind a fireplace, and by the time she was drawn forth into the light she had been ominously scorched.
From A Little Tour of France by Joseph Pennell
An interstice left open between the two flaps permitted a fall view of the interior.
From The Wild Huntress Love in the Wilderness by Mayne Reid
Price herself was well aware of racial interstices.
From New York Times ● Apr. 7, 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
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
From this stuck place, though, Specktor determines to map out a territory between success and failure — the interstices where most of us live, though rarely are they spoken of in all-or-nothing Hollywood.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2021
A very soft place would also appear poorly reflective because of the many interstices between individual sand grains.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
Vocabulary lists containing interstice
Ender's Game
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