fissure

Example Sentences

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This is “the scar that history has given us,” Boucheron continues, and ever since “we have been born already fissured, disturbed, uneasy.”

From Salon

The sandfly commonly shelters in cracks in poorly plastered mud houses, anthills and soil fissures, multiplying during the rainy season after prolonged drought.

From Barron's

The SDF had long shown fissures among the Kurdish, Arab and other factions that made up its force.

From The Wall Street Journal

The peak of Yosemite’s granite wall is higher than the tallest building in the world and requires climbers to navigate a maze of fissures, crevices and cracks.

From Los Angeles Times

Telling your husband to cut his children out of his will won’t improve his relationship with them, but it will cause fissures in your own marriage.

From MarketWatch