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
Photos and video show the explorers squeezing through jagged crevices deep inside the karsts, using flashlights to guide them further along an otherwise pitch-black maze of rocky burrows.
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Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 24 Mar. 2026
Add it to the growing canvases of her daughters playing at the sea, climbing the rocks, placing their tiny hands in the crevices of the walls surrounding the house.
—Literary Hub, 23 Mar. 2026
Mahajan presses firmly into the inner lives and cerebral crevices of terror victims, witnesses and perpetrators.
—Sibani Ram, Los Angeles Times, 23 Mar. 2026
The trail will typically lead you to cracks and crevices where the colony is hidden.
—Alexandra Kelly, Martha Stewart, 13 Mar. 2026
This helps the cake slide out of the crevices smoothly and easily without sticking to the pan.
—Karla Walsh, Better Homes & Gardens, 12 Mar. 2026
This allows it to get sucked right into all the microscopic crevices and pores of the surface, by the vacuum created by the seal.
—Ben Coxworth
march 11, New Atlas, 11 Mar. 2026
Then use a microfiber cloth barely dampened with water to wipe the fixture clean, making sure to get into any grooves and crevices.
—Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 7 Mar. 2026
Scrub Daddy’s Dump Duster is perfect for those crevices that may not get enough attention in your regular cleaning schedule.
—Bestreviews, Mercury News, 26 Feb. 2026
Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 24 Mar. 2026
Add it to the growing canvases of her daughters playing at the sea, climbing the rocks, placing their tiny hands in the crevices of the walls surrounding the house.
—Literary Hub, 23 Mar. 2026
Mahajan presses firmly into the inner lives and cerebral crevices of terror victims, witnesses and perpetrators.
—Sibani Ram, Los Angeles Times, 23 Mar. 2026
The trail will typically lead you to cracks and crevices where the colony is hidden.
—Alexandra Kelly, Martha Stewart, 13 Mar. 2026
This helps the cake slide out of the crevices smoothly and easily without sticking to the pan.
—Karla Walsh, Better Homes & Gardens, 12 Mar. 2026
This allows it to get sucked right into all the microscopic crevices and pores of the surface, by the vacuum created by the seal.
—Ben Coxworth
march 11, New Atlas, 11 Mar. 2026
Then use a microfiber cloth barely dampened with water to wipe the fixture clean, making sure to get into any grooves and crevices.
—Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 7 Mar. 2026
Scrub Daddy’s Dump Duster is perfect for those crevices that may not get enough attention in your regular cleaning schedule.
—Bestreviews, Mercury News, 26 Feb. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for crevices
fissures
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Miles and Ed are coming at the challenges of Mars-Earth relations and Marsie autonomy from totally different angles, and there are clearly fissures within SDM itself.—
Sophie Brookover,
Vulture,
27 Mar. 2026
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But the quakes migrated away from Bárðarbunga, and lava eventually gushed out of several fissures in the realm of another volcano, Askja, at a site named Holuhraun, 45 kilometers away.—
Quanta Magazine,
Quanta Magazine,
27 Mar. 2026
Cite this Entry
“Crevices.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/crevices. Accessed 31 Mar. 2026.
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