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

I turn now to the literary work which filled every available interstice of time.

From The Life of Sir James Fitzjames Stephen, Bart., K.C.S.I. A Judge of the High Court of Justice by Stephen, Leslie, Sir

Then, through the leafy interstice, a gleaming and flashing, as if some one were throwing jewels to the earth, lured her on to the cause of the seeming enchantment—a tiny waterfall!

From The Lady of the Mount by Isham, Frederic Stewart

They crowd up against the stones, get underneath them and behind them, enter every little creek and interstice, and are so jammed by their own numbers that they may easily be caught by hand.

From Wild Life in a Southern County by Jefferies, Richard

If Joan Didion had an overarching preoccupation as a journalist and novelist, it was to find interstices where truth and myth blend into each other.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 10, 2025

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

And one pleasant summer afternoon, deep in the interstices of one of his interminable lectures, he was visited by a revelation that was to alter radically the future of astronomy.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan