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interstice

[in-tur-stis] / ɪnˈtɜr stɪs /


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

Moreover the Jâbâlas speak in their text of the highest Lord as being in the interstice between the top of the head and the chin.

From The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Sankaracarya Sacred Books of the East, Volume 1 by George Thibaut

The precipice Hath part, and parts in many an interstice Lurk of the tangled woodland—no light quest To find.

From The Bacchae of Euripides by Euripedes

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 narrative fills the interstices of the show.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 18, 2022

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

Listen to this: “The dynamic interstices of the Harlem sub-culture have been oversimplified and distorted by Malcolm X to meet his own needs.”

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey




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