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

But, though the perpendicular interstice be destroyed, the horizontal one extends entirely through the whole work.

From With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 1 by Various

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

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

But the plays take place between these shattering events, in the interstices of the drama, where time quietly registers its ultimate authorial presence.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 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

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

From New York Times ● Dec. 23, 2020

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

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan