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  • Lava is flowing from a fissure that is ten miles east of the main crater.
    fissure = long narrow crack
  • The city is built above earthquake fissures.
    fissures = long narrow cracks n the earth
  • I pulled my right ax from the ice, reached up, and twisted the pick into a crooked half-inch fissure until it jammed.  (source)
    fissure = narrow crack
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  • A deep chasm opened up under her, a fissure cut into the cliffs by the sea.  (source)
    fissure = a long narrow crack
  • The cracks on our windshield told their own story. Their epicenter was a small ring with fissures circling outward.  (source)
    fissures = long narrow cracks
  • He dreamed of the piling, so real he felt he could almost reach out and slide his palm over its green-black fissured curve.†  (source)
    fissured = created a long, narrow crack or a split
  • Already the ends of my thumbs are fissuring, my face withering further.†  (source)
    fissuring = creating a long, narrow crack or a split
  • Then, at last, Sirius slipped out of sight, and when they reached the place where he had vanished, they saw a narrow fissure in the rock.  (source)
    fissure = long crack
  • The asphalt had split in a lightning-streak pattern, and more tangles of weed sprouted through the fissures.  (source)
    fissures = cracks
  • Her body was as gray as ash, fissured with black lines like volcanic lava.†  (source)
    fissured = created a long, narrow crack or a split
  • "Hurts," she said, and then fissuring cracks spread out from her mouth, across her face.†  (source)
    fissuring = creating a long, narrow crack or a split
  • The Professor was carefully examining every little fissure in the rocks.  (source)
    fissure = long narrow crack
  • Whitecaps slapped into the fissures, a sensation that Louie compared to having alcohol poured onto a wound.  (source)
    fissures = cracks
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