The interstices of these beds are filled with gypsum and salt; the gypsum also sometimes occurring in thin layers.
By porosity is understood the freedom with which air can pass through the interstices of a fabric.
In consequence of the fact of a fabric's possessing great porosity, it contains in its interstices what might be called "residual air.
A material of loose texture confining much air in its interstices is warmer than same amount of clothing material closely woven.
This occurring in the case of perspiration in the cloth interstices increases by just so much their warmth, in other words lessens the demand for heat production.
The top is a crystal-clear glass, under which is a deep box or tray filled with wet sand, with a fine wire net over it, in the interstices of which fresh flowers are closely stuck.
Manured ground, that is, soil containing decomposing vegetable or animal matters, is constantly giving out this gas into the interstices of the soil, whence the roots of the growing crop absorb it.
So it is brought to the ground by rain, and is absorbed by the roots of plants, either as dissolved in the water they imbibe, or in the form of gas in the interstices of the soil.
Springs issue from the bottom and through the interstices of a grey freestone rock, the rock rises in irregular masy clifts in a circular range, arround the Springs on their lower Side.
These two rings and the half ring are secured in their places by rivets passing through all of them and through the tubes, and uniting all firmly together, the interstices being filled with iron cement.
They sound the heap, probe the interstices with their antennae and tap the individual eggs with their palpi; then, this one here, that one there, they quickly apply the tip of their abdomen to the egg selected.
The Mason-bees had chosen theinterstices between the stones as a dormitory where to pass the night in serried groups.
Grasped in the closed hand, they insinuate themselves through the interstices of the fingers and plough up your skin in a fashion to make you very quickly loose your hold.
To dig in the interstices is possible, but to drag the dead animal through them is another matter: the meshes of the net are too close to give it passage.
The interstices of these are also filled up with the same membrane.
I don't see the collection," answered Lionel, first peering down athwart the joists upon the rugged ground overspread with stones and rubbish, then glancing up through similar interstices above to the gaunt rafters.
For the next 3-1/2 feet there were large blocks of limestone, the interstices between which were filled with limestone dust and debris.
The mound was composed throughout of rough blocks of limestone, the interstices of which were filled in with limestone dust and an unusually large quantity of light-brown earth.
Over this is first placed a layer of lime mortar, to which is applied when it is dry and has become sufficiently hard, a solution of water glass, by which all the interstices of the mortar are filled up.
When arranged regularly a little distance apart, the interstices between them are filled up with charcoal, with which they are then covered to a depth of about an inch.
Such pencillings, being examined, are found to be lead marks, interspersed with minute interstices of white paper, the whole giving a sort of grey tint of greater or less intensity.
Suppose the film to have been of bitumen and spread upon a sheet of zinc, we should have a reticulated image in insoluble bitumen with interstices of plain zinc.
A few larger trees of Fici clung to the edge of the rocks, and by forcing their roots into the interstices detached enormous masses, affording good dens for bears and other wild animals.
They give an old-fashioned and restful appearance to a garden, and in the interstices charming little plants like thyme, Ionopsidium acaule, &c.
It is taken up from the interstices between the particles of soil exclusively by the finest subdivisions of the fibrils, and in many cases by the extremely delicate thread-like cells which project from them and which are known as root-hairs.
Now it came ringing through the interstices of the bamboos, in a kind of long-drawn solo, as if the myal-man was initiating his ceremonies with the verse of a psalm.
Light flashed in his eyes through the interstices of what appeared to be a sort of grating.
His hut was dark, the door being shut close; but through the interstices of the bamboos he could see to some distance outside, and perceived that twilight was fast deepening among the trees.
Numerous rocky glens and gorges were seen, having various kinds of shrubs and low trees growing in the interstices of the rocks.
A few cypress pine-trees grew in the interstices of the rocks, giving it a most elegant appearance.
Here we had the back of our gunyah for a shield, and could poke the muzzles of our guns and rifles through the interstices of the boughs.
These shivered masses of stone have large interstices amongst them, which are the homes, dens, or resorts of swarms of a peculiar marsupial known as the rock wallaby, which come down on to the lower grounds at night to feed.
Close to the foot of the hills the country is open, but covered with large stones, between the interstices of which grow huge bunches of the hideous spinifex, which both we and the horses dread like a pestilence.
He enclosed ten out of fifteen frogs in thick wooden boxes, and filled the interstices with plaster, covering them over with the same substance, the toads lying each in a central hole or bed.
So long as the internal heat suffices to keep the body fluid, the liquid itself sees to it that all interstices are filled.
Not only are the interstices of various shape and pattern, but the mesh itself is of locally differing size.
Dark moss lined the interstices between the irregular and loosely placed stones.
Numerous sand-wasps build in the interstices between the bricks of a pavement in front of my house.
As soon as the wasp had left her tunnel, I covered the surface of the bricks and the interstices between them, for several feet around the orifice of the tunnel, with sand.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "interstices" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
