interstice
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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
The color is still left in every sheltered interstice of the foliage.
From The Stones of Venice, Volume II (of 3), by John Ruskin
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
This plan is preferable to laying a pale tint of the colour over the whole interstice.
From Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists by Thomas Salter
The actors wallow in the interstices of the dialogue.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2025
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 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
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