Sample Sentences for
fissure
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    Lava is flowing from a fissure that is ten miles east of the main crater.
    fissure = long narrow crack
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    The city is built above earthquake fissures.
    fissures = long narrow cracks n the earth
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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
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    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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    The cracks on our windshield told their own story. Their epicenter was a small ring with fissures circling outward.  (source)
    fissures = long narrow cracks
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    Bujumbura sits alongside the tranquil waters of Lake Tan-ganyika, at the foot of a fissured mountain range that rises sharply out of the flats and glows orange on clear days, when the sun sets over Congo to the west.†  (source)
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    Already the ends of my thumbs are fissuring, my face withering further.†  (source)
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    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
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    Ice was everywhere, in the valleys, in the cracks of stones, in fissures of the rock, in his hair, in his eyebrows.  (source)
    fissures = long narrow cracks
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    He drove very slowly over the craters of Highway 3, and the long stretches of lumpy, fissured bedrock, and the steep inclines where the dirt track was just piles of boulders.†  (source)
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    "Hurts," she said, and then fissuring cracks spread out from her mouth, across her face.†  (source)
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    The Professor was carefully examining every little fissure in the rocks.  (source)
    fissure = long narrow crack
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    Whitecaps slapped into the fissures, a sensation that Louie compared to having alcohol poured onto a wound.  (source)
    fissures = cracks
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