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interstice

[in-tur-stis] / ɪnˈtɜr stɪs /


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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

For many hours before her capture she had been compressed into an interstice behind a fireplace, and by the time she was drawn forth into the light she had been ominously scorched.

From A Little Tour of France by Pennell, Joseph

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 Chambers, Robert

Poppies filled every interstice between the barley stalks, their scarlet petals turned back in very languor of exuberant colour, as the awns, drooping over, caressed them.

From Nature Near London by Jefferies, Richard




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