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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

Xavier," resumed Loyola, "plant your candle in some interstice of that boulder.

From The Pocket Bible or Christian the Printer A Tale of the Sixteenth Century by Eug?ne Sue

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

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

The actors wallow in the interstices of the dialogue.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2025

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

Given how much executive authority lies tucked away in the interstices of federal law, just waiting to be exploited, it’s remarkable that presidents have not abused it more blatantly.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 3, 2022

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


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