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  • noun Plural form of interstice.

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Examples

  • Moreover, it has to be created within what I call the interstices of the state.

    Bloggers.Pakistan 2008

  • Moreover, it has to be created within what I call the interstices of the state.

    baithak 2008

  • Every one knows that the meshes of Acts of Parliament are not always effectual to hold every fish which they were designed to entangle; but when one of the interstices is powerful to capture it should not be cast aside in deference to its more lax companions.

    The Alexandra 1863

  • "Agreed," said Dwight; and they accordingly leveled the stones off on the top, and put small stones in at all the interstices, that is, the little spaces between the large stones, so as to prevent the gravel from running down through.

    Caleb in the Country Jacob Abbott 1841

  • The "interstices," as Mr. Bagshaw called them, to be filled up by the amusing talents of the elder Wrench and Uncle John's friend.

    Stories of Comedy Rossiter Johnson 1885

  • In the beginning no such periods, called interstices, were appointed, though the tendency to orderly promotion is attested already in the pastoral Epistles (I

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913

  • If there is base-shift dewarping at all, it may only be as a projection of a beyond from which the quirk may have come, as an intruder into our world, as a lurker on its threshhold, or as an inhabitant of its interstices.

    Notes Toward a Theory of Narrative Modality Hal Duncan 2009

  • And we learned our lesson, we did, in our exile as outcasts, from that day on swearing to spread our message of empathy for those we do not know and do not understand, throughout the cities of the world, to rebuild our Sodom in the interstices of every other city, every town and village, in the bars and cafés, in our words and works.

    On Sophistry and Subjectivity Hal Duncan 2009

  • The ulterior milieu is situated as a system of alterity dispersed throughout reality, hidden in the interstices between what is known.

    Notes on Worldscape Hal Duncan 2009

  • And we learned our lesson, we did, in our exile as outcasts, from that day on swearing to spread our message of empathy for those we do not know and do not understand, throughout the cities of the world, to rebuild our Sodom in the interstices of every other city, every town and village, in the bars and cafés, in our words and works.

    Archive 2009-08-01 Hal Duncan 2009

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  • Say it! "In-TERS-ti-sees!" Say it a bunch of times! Never gets old.

    June 17, 2009