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Example sentences for "interstice"

Lexicographically close words:
intersperse; interspersed; interspersing; interstate; interstellar; interstices; interstitial; interstratified; intertained; intertainment
  1. My Days I sing, and the Lands--with interstice I knew of hapless War.

  2. Then she ventured to spy at his face through an interstice of the bedclothes, and saw thereon a most queer, white expression.

  3. Krupp bent down and glanced through an interstice of a partition at a clock in the corridor.

  4. Both these lines were secured by breast-works, abattis, and stone walls, with banquettes and scarps: not an opening nor interstice through which a mountain goat could pass but was blocked up or guarded.

  5. The bottoms of these batteries were made of massive timber, and their sides were secured with a rampart or wall composed of timber and cork, with an interstice between, filled up with wet sand.

  6. In an upright interstice of half an inch in width, between two of the bricks, we found the little architect assiduously building its walls.

  7. Now, if you take this piece of oak to the top of the stair, you will see that it fits exactly a slight interstice at the edge of one of the planks.

  8. I showed him that the sliver taken from the slipper fitted exactly the interstice I had indicated.

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

  10. These stones are almost invariably parallelopipeds of unequal sizes in the wall, but equally deep, and laid regularly in ranges over each other like bricks, each breaking and covering the interstice of the two on which it rests.

  11. I filled the pannikin for myself and emptied it, and ate a biscuit and a piece of cheese, which were near my hand in an interstice of the raft, and then lay down near the cot, supporting my head on my elbow.

  12. An interstice or small space, as between the cracks of the surface in certain crustaceous lichens; or as between the fibers composing organs or vessels that interlace; or as between the nervures of an insect's wing.

  13. Masonry) The joint or interstice between stones, to be filled with mortar.


  14. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "interstice" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    aperture; caesura; clearance; crack; discontinuity; hiatus; hole; interim; interruption; interspace; interstice; interval; jump; lacuna; leap; leeway; margin; mesh; room; space