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

Not an interstice in the roots of the trees escaped his eye and to Enoch, who could not imagine what he was looking for, his actions seemed without reason.

From With Ethan Allen at Ticonderoga by W. Bertram Foster

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

I showed him that the sliver taken from the slipper fitted exactly the interstice I had indicated.

From The Triumphs of Eugène Valmont by Robert Barr

The actors wallow in the interstices of the dialogue.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2025

On the roof, a 28½-foot travertine bench is installed along one side of a long pool that’s horizontally bisected by five thick concrete walls; Kalach, 63, calls the resulting interstices “cubicles.”

From New York Times ● Sep. 20, 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

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

A very soft place would also appear poorly reflective because of the many interstices between individual sand grains.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan