Example Sentences

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If Joan Didion had an overarching preoccupation as a journalist and novelist, it was to find interstices where truth and myth blend into each other.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 10, 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

In a crowd, the body tries to be smaller, contracting in odd ways to find clear passage, shaping itself to the interstices of precious empty space.

From Washington Post • Aug. 4, 2021

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