as in fissures
an irregular usually narrow break in a surface created by pressure
steam escaped from a long crevice in the volcano
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Recent Examples of crevices
Pay extra attention to seams and crevices.
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Daley Quinn, Southern Living, 29 Dec. 2025
The best way to thwart this is to check around your property for potential sheltering spots and to seal holes and crevices with wood, hardware cloth, or another sturdy material.
—Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 21 Dec. 2025
All-terrain tires and a higher ride height allow the EX30 to steer capably through challenging cracks and crevices.
—Morgan Korn, ABC News, 21 Dec. 2025
Endangered and no bigger than a fingertip, the rare creatures shelter in the damp crevices beneath rocks, fallen leaves and decaying logs of this biodiversity hotspot.
—Laura Sharman, CNN Money, 18 Dec. 2025
The invasive beetles from Asia would burrow through bark, the females laying eggs in crevices.
—Frank Vaisvilas, jsonline.com, 29 Oct. 2025
The surrounding mountains are just pink rock piles sprouting cacti from their crevices.
—Rowan Jacobsen, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
Most vacuums are fit for the job with an attachment suited for getting into small crevices.
—Krystal Nurse, USA Today, 22 Oct. 2025
Fascistic creep bubbles like lava through the crevices of America’s political and cultural substrata.
—Literary Hub, 21 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for crevices
fissures
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As his family tries to settle into their new neighborhood, Jin’s plot creates fissures between him and his wife and daughters, as well as their white, liberal neighbor.—
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Some of the creatures seen at the Freya mounds are also found at hydrothermal vents, or fissures in the seafloor through which hot, chemical-laden water erupts, the researchers said, suggesting these ecosystems may be more intertwined than previously thought.—
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“Crevices.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/crevices. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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