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

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 Sir F. C. (Francis Cowley) Burnand

The box was nicely mortised against another previously deposited, and as there remained an interstice between it and that at its feet, an infant's coffin made the space complete.

From Bohemian Days Three American Tales by George Alfred Townsend

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 Richard Jefferies

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 narrative fills the interstices of the show.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 18, 2022

The guitar poked into interstices with pings or echoey chords or scratchy syncopation or dissonant counterpoint.

From New York Times ● Dec. 23, 2020

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