How to Use fissure in a Sentence

fissure

noun

• Deep fissures have formed around the edges of the hole.
  — Sarah Bahari, Dallas News, 12 Apr. 2023
• The latest fissure was about 3 km long, the office said.
  — Kevin Shalvey, ABC News, 7 Feb. 2024
• Reddick closed that fissure when the linebacker signed a free-agent deal with the Birds.
  — Dan Gelston, Orlando Sentinel, 2 Oct. 2022
• The fissure is about 2.5 miles long, as well, stretching from just east of Stóra-Skógfell to just east of Sundhnúk.
  — Abigail Adams, Peoplemag, 21 Dec. 2023
• The paths to the summit are becoming longer, as climbers have to go around risky cracks and fissures.
  — Somini Sengupta, New York Times, 13 Sep. 2023
• In that fissure, opponents of the refugees and the NGOs found ample room for attack.
  — New York Times, 2 Mar. 2022
• Local news footage showed lava and smoke pouring out of a fissure in the ground.
  — Justin Klawans, The Week, 16 July 2023
• The Rangers can use one more thumper for a strong lineup that showed some fissures in an uneven June.
  — Evan Grant, Dallas News, 5 July 2023
• Instead, in the final weeks of the eruption, fractures and a new fissure system split open the side of the volcano.
  — K.e.d. Coan, Ars Technica, 5 Apr. 2022
• The fissure in remote work and return to office discourse seems to grow week-to-week.
  — Trey Williams, Fortune, 26 Sep. 2022
• The rescuers sent a coastguard down a rope into the fissure to free the stuck pup carefully.
  — People Staff, PEOPLE.com, 19 Apr. 2022
• What if healing has left fragments and fissures that can’t be made whole?
  — Kristina Kasparian, Longreads, 6 Feb. 2024
• Some of these have opened fissures in the landscape, including across roads.
  — Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 14 Nov. 2023
• Video shows fountains of bright-orange molten rock spewing from fissures in the ground up to 260 feet into the air.
  — Alexandra Banner, CNN, 9 Feb. 2024
• Live video from the area showed fountains of bright-orange molten rock spewing from fissures in the ground, in sharp contrast to the still-dark night sky.
  — Reuters, CNN, 8 Feb. 2024
• One of Beijing’s aims will be to widen the fissures in Taiwan’s government.
  — Doyle McManus, Los Angeles Times, 22 Jan. 2024
• The fissure persisted for decades and had lasting consequences for the league.
  — Megan O’Matz, ProPublica, 18 Aug. 2022
• Magma spewed from a narrow fissure over 100 yards long.
  — USA TODAY, 4 Aug. 2022
• Video showed lava spewing from fissures at the crater’s base, but the activity was confined to the crater.
  — Melissa Alonso, CNN, 11 Sep. 2023
• During the initial eruption, fountains of lava spewed from fissures in the Earth.
  — Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 9 Aug. 2023
• Its source is a massive fissure about the length of three football fields, according to Forbes’ Eric Mack.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Aug. 2022
• Luckily, the lay of the land around the new fissure channeled most of the fresh lava into an unpopulated area to the east.
  — Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 13 Feb. 2024
• The eruption opened up a 2.5-mile-long fissure, sending thousands of cubic feet of lava across the landscape.
  — Denise Chow, NBC News, 19 Dec. 2023
• This pattern of earthquakes and fissures are very common in the days to hours before an eruption starts in both areas.
  — Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2023
• There are a few key differences in the approaches, but — at least on paper — the divides are closer to a fissure than a chasm.
  — Dave Boucher, Detroit Free Press, 17 Jan. 2023
• Guðmundsson said the fissure, which is very active now, extends from the northern side of Hagafell and north to Stóra-Skógfell.
  — Mariya Knight, CNN, 16 Mar. 2024
• Had tension over one of the band members leaving last year amid controversy forced a fissure in the group?
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 17 Sep. 2022
• The fissure – cracked open on the northeastern slope of the world’s largest active volcano – feeds a searing flow of molten rock that cuts through the contours of Hawaii’s Big Island.
  — David Culver, CNN, 5 Dec. 2022
• The eruptive fissure was roughly 3 km (2 miles) long, the Met Office said, adding that the outbreak was believed to be in the same location as a Dec. 18 eruption.
  — Reuters, CNN, 8 Feb. 2024
• In her speech, Harris alluded to some of those fissures, speaking of an uneven road ahead.
  — Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 19 Feb. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024