interstice

Example Sentences

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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

By following the sound we discovered at last between the great boulders an interstice, which would just allow a man to slip below ground.

From The Watchers A Novel by Mason, A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley)

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 Mason, A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley)

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