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    Use "fissure" in a sentence

    fissure example sentences

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    1. "Yes, Stone Master," the exceptionally hairy dwarf replied, turning to the still gaping fissure in the Red Wall and ambling away


    2. Though bound and tethered to a thick stalagmite at the back end of the cave, Nerissa had enough room to relieve herself over a fissure


    3. Nerissa left the fissure on the next outflowing tide


    4. Nowhere is this fissure more apparent than that separating its Liberal and Conservative components


    5. He tried to find a handhold in the rocks, a fissure, a jutting piece of granite or lime, but all he could grasp was the thin, cold rush of air


    6. While Caroline studied Beth, her emotionless soul developed a fissure, allowing a sense of sympathy to enter, and suddenly, she was anxious to help


    7. The present Communist Regime insists, however, in limiting that opening to a mere commercial fissure or crack


    8.  A fissure of the skull and a projecting brain known as


    9. In several places earth slides had almost filled in the fissure, but the


    10. Finally she came to the end of the fissure

    11. drove the car across where the fissure would have been, had it


    12. His javelin slammed into the earth where Artemis had been a split second before, and a fissure opened in the rocks


    13. the torch, out here the fissure seemed wider and indeed it


    14. the fissure entered the Temple and then led the way inside


    15. again followed the expanding fissure to the edge of the


    16. “We have plumbed the fissure and as far as


    17. fissure, they used some very sophisticated seismological


    18. twenty meters into the fissure


    19. the fissure has opened another three millimetres,” said


    20. Jim to where the fissure disappeared under the wall of the

    21. As the dust settled they saw that another fissure had


    22. an earthquake caused a fissure to appear at the moment of


    23. disappeared into a small fissure close to the floor in the far


    24. Carefully she inserted the point of the file into the fissure to


    25. was all she had, speedily she worked on the fissure to


    26. twenty meters above was the surface and likely the fissure


    27. toward it and the deep shadow turned into a fissure in the


    28. more Jo stepped into the fissure, it was tight but she


    29. The fissure across the rock had of course been cordoned


    30. “OK,” said Wade but that still leaves that fissure

    31. If an earthquake hits right in the middle of a house, resulting in half on each side of the fissure but the house still intact, is this what is referred to as a “home stretch?”


    32. Above this natural cleft would be a fissure,


    33. Within this fissure immediately above the cleft,


    34. “No hemmorhoids? A small fissure, what’s that?” he asked


    35. Clumps of snow and loose rock fell out revealing a small fissure


    36. They both tore feverishly at the edges of the fissure until the hole was large enough to squeeze through


    37. Davis stared at the small crack, curling his eyebrows as the fissure spread around him


    38. A snap filled the universe, and a fissure appeared in my vision


    39. The fissure widened, swallowing the djain


    40. “Optimism would be nice at a time like this,” she muttered as she stepped over a decent-sized fissure in the ground

    41. Fionn and Eilidh shared a worried glance as the group moved into the fissure behind Shela


    42. It rose like a lava fountain from the fissure of emotions that sat below the lithosphere of self-control, like tectonic plates separating intense hatred spewed forth


    43. “I estimate that a crew can seal one fissure per day


    44. you go about sealing a fissure, Dave


    45. The guys on the surface only found two small fissures and they fil ed them right then and there with balloons dropped down ten feet into the fissure


    46. used a fissure in the wall to hold the torch; the dancing light


    47. The venom was so lethal and acidic that it bored through the beast and turned it into ashes as the fissure spread


    48. I follow quickly, I ascend to the nest in the fissure of the cliff


    49. Emma placed her letter at the end of the garden, by the river, in a fissure of the wall


    50. As the blankets yielded before the outward pressure, and the branches settled in the fissure of the rock by their own weight, forming a compact body, Duncan once more breathed freely



























    1. This old majestic ash, with lined and fissured bark and pale green cigar shaped leaves, was, his father told him, a 'mother tree'


    2. Stared at the fissured spine of his old, once-beloved copy of Marx’s Capital, leaning


    3. The rock above the four colossi on the façade, which is of sandstone with layers of clay, had become fissured, threatening an immediate fall


    1. Skies billowed and poured acid rain into fissures in those rocks, fissures that


    2. in the ice-cracked fissures where


    3. We can also point to the remnants of this subterranean water body, when we consider water that is still being pushed to the surface of the Earth today from deep inside the Earth via underwater vents, fissures and hot springs found all over the Earth, under the pressure of rock masses bearing down on these subterranean water bodies, even after the passage of 4,500 years after the Flood


    4. Under immense pressure from the crust, and/or mantle, bearing down on this water layer, this water may have surfaced through fissures, capillaries or pathways in the crust


    5. pierced the cave walls through fissures etched in the ceiling,


    6. derelict fissures of the chimney’s domed crown, and the blue-


    7. There are plants, fissures, algae vines, and miles of underwater mountains


    8. Fissures, alien crabs with twelve arms, glowing eels with wings and square-shaped stingrays parade the ocean floor


    9. Nevertheless, it still has fissures in terms of


    10. streets, chasms and fissures in the earth; ravines and

    11. The fissures split through to the ceiling, a cascade of sand runs in from the widening hole


    12. voids of midnight black appeared as fissures all across the dreamscape


    13. Air got pumped into the cavern from outside by natural occurring fissures and pumps, strategically placed and powered by hydro–electric power generators that an engineering team from the cavern dwellers had set under the waterfalls, which replaced the noisy diesel generators both outside and inside the Cavern


    14. see unnatural growth in scabby fissures usually on the eyelid


    15. what trees there were clung precariously to small fissures


    16. fissures could be seen and a whole section of wall was


    17. more fissures are appearing all the time


    18. anchoring and then filling the fissures and then repairing


    19. The pedestal was cracked and the fissures were filled with mastiha the chewing gum from Hios


    20. bushveld into the rolls and fissures of the Mpumalanga escarpment, a journey of just

    21. Wherever they looked, they found the seabed crazed with recent fissures, many still glowing, and issuing steam and other gasses


    22. Stan Kendrick and other specialists on board concluded that the two ships had sunk extremely quickly, possibly on a vast bubble column caused by the molten rock and gases, rising through the mat of fissures in the seabed


    23. The amount of sulphur that would be present in the gas depended on how many open fissures there were at the time, and it was probably a lot


    24. Here and there, snow sifted down through fissures and crevices


    25. fissures speed the pace once more


    26. create friction and fissures in the society


    27. The Soul is rendered feeble by maladies when it slips into the fissures


    28. The Devata youth was tempted to impale him on his spear but something inexplicable occurred: the elder’s balding head started to crack like an egg and luminous fissures showed up on other parts of his frail body


    29. By the time I reached your tower, fire was spewing from fissures


    30. Flames spurted from fissures in the rocks, and everywhere

    31. The caverns on Mars are ful of fissures that lead to the surface


    32. Until al of the fissures have been sealed and the cavern pressurized you must


    33. of up to one hundred fissures but that is only an estimate


    34. ” “We locate the fissures that need to be


    35. ” This will take a crew about eight hours in working time but they can be working on other fissures while the cement is


    36. The large part had a very high ceiling and very few fissures to the


    37. surface sealing the fissures on the big half so it looked like they could open it up within the next week


    38. October 8, 2108: The four fissures in what they were all referring to as


    39. December 15, 2108: The fissures had all been sealed and pressure


    40. The guys on the surface only found two small fissures and they fil ed them right then and there with balloons dropped down ten feet into the fissure

    41. fissures on the walls


    42. Fissures appeared around the base of the


    43. Recovery from anal fissures and related disorders


    44. HYDRATION COMPLEX can be used for hemorrhoids, in the same way it can be used for anal fissures


    45. Anal fissures are one of the most painful, and hard-to-treat anorectal disorders because no one can stop the waste excretion process when trying to heal


    46. Heyward himself was posted at hand, so near that he might communicate with his companions without raising his voice to a dangerous elevation; while David, in imitation of the woodsmen, bestowed his person in such a manner among the fissures of the rocks, that his ungainly limbs were no longer offensive to the eye


    47. The Indians silently repaired to their appointed stations, which were fissures in the rocks, whence they could command the approaches to the foot of the falls


    48. The brook was irregular in its width, sometimes shooting through narrow fissures in the rocks, and at others spreading over acres of bottom land, forming little areas that might be termed ponds


    49. Notwithstanding his large stomach, certainly not intended to penetrate the fissures of the Campagna, he slid down like Peppino, and closing his eyes fell upon his feet


    50. Whitecaps slapped into the fissures, a sensation that Louie compared to having alcohol poured onto a wound



















    1. Seasons had passed over her, their alternating chill and warmth fissuring her strong heart like cracks in stone


    2. „No splitting of the rectum, merely fissuring, minor infection, bruising and so on


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    Synonyms for "fissure"

    fissure cleft crack crevice scissure chap cranny split cleavage fracture severing disjunction breach

    "fissure" definitions

    a long narrow depression in a surface


    a long narrow opening


    (anatomy) a long narrow slit or groove that divides an organ into lobes


    break into fissures or fine cracks