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

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

The precipice Hath part, and parts in many an interstice Lurk of the tangled woodland—no light quest To find.

From The Bacchae of Euripides by Euripedes

A minute space or interstice in a tissue.

From Mother's Remedies Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers of the United States and Canada by Thomas Jefferson Ritter

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

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

The guitar poked into interstices with pings or echoey chords or scratchy syncopation or dissonant counterpoint.

From New York Times ● Dec. 23, 2020

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

The woods were lit with lanterns, and far below in the bay, through the interstices of trees, she could make out the deck lights of moored pleasure boats.

From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson