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
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
In the interstice is an oval or egg-shaped mound.'
From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 422 Volume 17, New Series, January 31, 1852 by Robert Chambers
The lights were all off; a pencil of moonlight here and there from an interstice in the curtains alone touched her as she passed.
From The Summons 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
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
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
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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