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

But, though the perpendicular interstice be destroyed, the horizontal one extends entirely through the whole work.

From With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 1 by Various

The presence of death—infinite, menacing, for ever treacherously active—filled every interstice of the poem.

From The Buried Temple by Alfred Sutro

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

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

Given how much executive authority lies tucked away in the interstices of federal law, just waiting to be exploited, it’s remarkable that presidents have not abused it more blatantly.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 3, 2022

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

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan