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

The presence of death—infinite, menacing, for ever treacherously active—filled every interstice of the poem.

From The Buried Temple by Sutro, Alfred

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

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 Townsend, George Alfred