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

Little boys, holding three or four onions in their hands, creep between the people, wriggling their way through every interstice, and asking for custom in whining tones, as if seeking charity.

From A History of the Cries of London Ancient and Modern by Hindley, Charles

For his own part, he found the most convenient way of cracking a walnut was deftly to place the article in the interstice of the dining-room door, and gently close it.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, October 31, 1891 by Burnand, F. C. (Francis Cowley), Sir

Truly it was her lover; through an interstice of the apple boughs she saw him distinctly, and he saw her—that smile, surely the gloomy old mirror had reflected awry.

From Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 2 August 1848 by Various

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

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 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