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

Behind the cottage rose the bare mountain-side, covered with loose stones and rocks, among which in every available interstice the diligent peasants had sown corn and barley.

From The Call of the Blood by Lowell, Orson

On the other hand, the edge of the bar turned away from the wind is always soft, often imperceptible, melting into the blue interstice between it and its next neighbor.

From Modern Painters Volume I (of V) by Ruskin, John

Ralph dropped his other hold lightning-quick, thrust his hand into the interstice, pushed the door still further back, and precipitated himself forward across the floor of an empty box car.

From Ralph on the Engine The Young Fireman of the Limited Mail by Chapman, Allen