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

Through an interstice she was able to see all the persons seated at the other table.

From The City of Delight A Love Drama of the Siege and Fall of Jerusalem by Frank X. Leyendecker

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

From The Buried Temple by Alfred Sutro

Then, through the leafy interstice, a gleaming and flashing, as if some one were throwing jewels to the earth, lured her on to the cause of the seeming enchantment—a tiny waterfall!

From The Lady of the Mount by Frederic Stewart Isham

The actors wallow in the interstices of the dialogue.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2025

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

The guitar poked into interstices with pings or echoey chords or scratchy syncopation or dissonant counterpoint.

From New York Times ● Dec. 23, 2020

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