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
I showed him that the sliver taken from the slipper fitted exactly the interstice I had indicated.
From The Triumphs of Eugène Valmont by Robert Barr
By following the sound we discovered at last between the great boulders an interstice, which would just allow a man to slip below ground.
From The Watchers A Novel by A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley) Mason
The mortar between the stones is very old, and in every interstice cling in bunches the bee-haunted bluebells.
From The Cruise of the Land-Yacht "Wanderer" Thirteen Hundred Miles in my Caravan by Gordon Stables
But the plays take place between these shattering events, in the interstices of the drama, where time quietly registers its ultimate authorial presence.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2023
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
Vocabulary lists containing interstice
Ender's Game
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The Time Machine
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Dracula
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