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
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 mortar between the stones is very old, and in every interstice cling in bunches the bee-haunted bluebells.
From The Cruise of the Land-Yacht "Wanderer" Thirteen Hundred Miles in my Caravan by Gordon Stables
The presence of death—infinite, menacing, for ever treacherously active—filled every interstice of the poem.
From The Buried Temple by Alfred Sutro
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
In a crowd, the body tries to be smaller, contracting in odd ways to find clear passage, shaping itself to the interstices of precious empty space.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 4, 2021
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
A very soft place would also appear poorly reflective because of the many interstices between individual sand grains.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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