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
Ralph dropped his other hold lightning-quick, thrust his hand into the interstice, pushed the door still further back, and precipitated himself forward across the floor of an empty box car.
From Ralph on the Engine The Young Fireman of the Limited Mail by Allen Chapman
The presence of death—infinite, menacing, for ever treacherously active—filled every interstice of the poem.
From The Buried Temple by Alfred Sutro
This plan is preferable to laying a pale tint of the colour over the whole interstice.
From Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists by Thomas Salter
The actors wallow in the interstices of the dialogue.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2025
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
The guitar poked into interstices with pings or echoey chords or scratchy syncopation or dissonant counterpoint.
From New York Times ● Dec. 23, 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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