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

The lights were all off; a pencil of moonlight here and there from an interstice in the curtains alone touched her as she passed.

From The Summons by A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley) Mason

There seemed to be no interstice, no crevice into which he might insert the keen probe of his marvelous deductive power.

From The Crevice by Will Grefé

I remember that the sun gleamed of a sudden through an interstice of the cloud as he stepped into the open.

From Lawrence Clavering by A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley) Mason

Over the decades, scandal-ridden corporations have hidden fraudulent behavior in the interstices between mandated disclosures—think Enron, WorldCom and Tyco, among others.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026

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

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

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