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

They crowd up against the stones, get underneath them and behind them, enter every little creek and interstice, and are so jammed by their own numbers that they may easily be caught by hand.

From Wild Life in a Southern County by Richard Jefferies

Then, through the leafy interstice, a gleaming and flashing, as if some one were throwing jewels to the earth, lured her on to the cause of the seeming enchantment—a tiny waterfall!

From The Lady of the Mount by Frederic Stewart Isham

She threw on a heavy bathrobe and kept it on when she crept into the icy interstice between the all-too-snowy sheets.

From The Cup of Fury A Novel of Cities and Shipyards by Henry Raleigh

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

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

This seems right: The gaps in his surreal fables are the dark interstices in which new sympathies may fester.

From Washington Post ● May 18, 2020

A very soft place would also appear poorly reflective because of the many interstices between individual sand grains.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan