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
In the interstice is an oval or egg-shaped mound.'
From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 422 Volume 17, New Series, January 31, 1852 by Robert Chambers
Through an interstice she was able to see all the persons seated at the other table.
From The City of Delight A Love Drama of the Siege and Fall of Jerusalem by Frank X. Leyendecker
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
On the roof, a 28½-foot travertine bench is installed along one side of a long pool that’s horizontally bisected by five thick concrete walls; Kalach, 63, calls the resulting interstices “cubicles.”
From New York Times ● Sep. 20, 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 narrative fills the interstices of the show.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 18, 2022
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
Listen to this: “The dynamic interstices of the Harlem sub-culture have been oversimplified and distorted by Malcolm X to meet his own needs.”
From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey
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Ender's Game
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