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

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 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

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

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

From this stuck place, though, Specktor determines to map out a territory between success and failure — the interstices where most of us live, though rarely are they spoken of in all-or-nothing Hollywood.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2021

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