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
Key prevention strategies include sealing cracks and crevices in walls, roofs, and around windows and doors.
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Matthew Binnicker, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
The females wait folded within crevices in bark.
—Rosanna Warren, The Atlantic, 7 Sep. 2025
Remove the cushions and vacuum both sides and the crevices where the back and sides join.
—Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 6 Sep. 2025
Pests can make their way into these small crevices easily, so keeping your appliances clean and free of food will prevent bugs from feasting in your kitchen.
—Sophia Beams, Better Homes & Gardens, 4 Sep. 2025
Wiping your shoes on a doormat doesn’t help much, either, since most shoes have soles with crevices that collect germs and bacteria.
—Angela Haupt, Time, 25 Aug. 2025
The reptile, which hibernates individually in holes, burrows or rock crevices, prefers to live along ridgelines and bluffs, especially on south and southwest facing slopes.
—Marina Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 18 Aug. 2025
Sandwiched in the crevices between the two urges was a part of me that wanted to believe.
—Lizz Schumer, People.com, 18 Aug. 2025
The river there was sandwiched by canyons, making the water difficult to access by boat and providing plenty of crevices for mussels to hide.
—Alex Music
august 17, Idaho Statesman, 17 Aug. 2025
Matthew Binnicker, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
The females wait folded within crevices in bark.
—Rosanna Warren, The Atlantic, 7 Sep. 2025
Remove the cushions and vacuum both sides and the crevices where the back and sides join.
—Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 6 Sep. 2025
Pests can make their way into these small crevices easily, so keeping your appliances clean and free of food will prevent bugs from feasting in your kitchen.
—Sophia Beams, Better Homes & Gardens, 4 Sep. 2025
Wiping your shoes on a doormat doesn’t help much, either, since most shoes have soles with crevices that collect germs and bacteria.
—Angela Haupt, Time, 25 Aug. 2025
The reptile, which hibernates individually in holes, burrows or rock crevices, prefers to live along ridgelines and bluffs, especially on south and southwest facing slopes.
—Marina Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 18 Aug. 2025
Sandwiched in the crevices between the two urges was a part of me that wanted to believe.
—Lizz Schumer, People.com, 18 Aug. 2025
The river there was sandwiched by canyons, making the water difficult to access by boat and providing plenty of crevices for mussels to hide.
—Alex Music
august 17, Idaho Statesman, 17 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for crevices
fissures
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Wyatt exited and then returned to the project amid creative fissures, including wrangling over the movie’s tone, pacing, and length.—
Jake Kanter,
Deadline,
12 Sep. 2025
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Trump is facing a catch-22 in the face of growing fissures at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and mounting departures of scientists and experts over vaccine policy.—
Elizabeth Crisp,
The Hill,
3 Sep. 2025
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“Crevices.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/crevices. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.
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