How to Use fissure in a Sentence

fissure

1 of 2 noun
  • But there are fissures in the-- in the regime.
    — CBS News, 10 May 2026
  • That tells you the kind of fissures that are there.
    — NBC news, 15 Mar. 2026
  • What if healing has left fragments and fissures that can’t be made whole?
    — Kristina Kasparian, Longreads, 6 Feb. 2024
  • The ledges are broken by crevices and fissures, and loose rocks of all sizes lie on them and below them.
    — Dr. C. E. Kuschel, Outdoor Life, 9 Apr. 2026
  • Local news footage showed lava and smoke pouring out of a fissure in the ground.
    — Justin Klawans, The Week, 16 July 2023
  • Some of these have opened fissures in the landscape, including across roads.
    — Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 14 Nov. 2023
  • Reddick closed that fissure when the linebacker signed a free-agent deal with the Birds.
    — Dan Gelston, Orlando Sentinel, 2 Oct. 2022
  • 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
  • The fissure in remote work and return to office discourse seems to grow week-to-week.
    — Trey Williams, Fortune, 26 Sep. 2022
  • Those practices are bound to cause irritation or even anal fissures (tiny cuts or tears).
    — Women's Health, 17 Mar. 2023
  • But the challenge is that at some point, this sort of fissure or this sort of division is going to get played out.
    — NBC news, 14 Dec. 2025
  • The fissure was visible before the war.
    — Clay Chandler, semafor.com, 19 June 2026
  • The rescuers sent a coastguard down a rope into the fissure to free the stuck pup carefully.
    — People Staff, PEOPLE.com, 19 Apr. 2022
  • 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
  • Cracked bitumen in turn leads to roadway fissures and potholes.
    — New Atlas, 19 Dec. 2025
  • The fissure persisted for decades and had lasting consequences for the league.
    — Megan O’Matz, ProPublica, 18 Aug. 2022
  • So, too, does the idea that a soccer coach could close fissures that even the well-meaning among career politicians have failed to seal.
    — Jon Allsop, New Yorker, 18 June 2026
  • Crews discovered fissures in the bedrock that required repair and struggled to find grips strong enough to hold cars on the steep grade.
    — Michael Wells, Kansas City Star, 22 Oct. 2025
  • For six months, molten matter fountained from a fissure next to Fagradalsfjall.
    — Robin George Andrews, Quanta Magazine, 20 Feb. 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • It was created with an acetylene torch, creating fissures of holes and bumps throughout the jagged piece.
    — Anthony Demarco, Forbes, 26 Mar. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • Over the first three weeks, the 49ers somehow maintained their balance as cracks and fissures formed all over their lineup.
    — Matt Barrows, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2025
  • This is their connective tissue, not evidence of a fissure.
    — Troy Renck, Denver Post, 30 Jan. 2026
  • One of Beijing’s aims will be to widen the fissures in Taiwan’s government.
    — Doyle McManus, Los Angeles Times, 22 Jan. 2024
  • During the initial eruption, fountains of lava spewed from fissures in the Earth.
    — Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 9 Aug. 2023

fissure

2 of 2 verb
  • But at the end of season three, cracks begin to show, and our favorite couple begins to fray and fissure.
    — Chris Murphy, Vanity Fair, 11 June 2026
  • One nasty cutback on his first touch fissured Buffalo’s defense for an 87-yard score.
    — Sam Cohn, Baltimore Sun, 27 Nov. 2024
  • The trunk was fissured at the base, creating a seam wide enough to slip into—in other words, an absolutely perfect hiding place.
    — David Gilbert, The New Yorker, 4 June 2017
  • The lodge’s eight-week season begins in June, just as the pack ice that blankets the Northwest Passage begins to fissure and melt.
    — Ashlea Halpern, WIRED, 24 May 2017
  • This is far from the first time that fissures within the Republican party over immigration have been on public display.
    — Chris Cillizza, CNN, 17 May 2018
  • About 100 million years ago, shifts in tectonic plates caused the region’s foundational limestone to begin to crack and fissure.
    — Jennifer Billock, Smithsonian, 30 Aug. 2017
  • The other stream of cultural anthropology will continue to evolve and fissure, as a thousand 'discourses' bloom.
    — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 25 Feb. 2013
  • But where some teams fissure under the weight of unfulfilled expectations, going through that experience collectively made this group even tighter.
    — Eric Walden, The Salt Lake Tribune, 5 June 2021
  • The trans community itself was as fissured as any other, full of arguments about purity and authenticity.
    — James Marcus, New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2025
  • Lynne Ramsay has taken all of her films — confrontational tone poems generally revolving around one individual’s fissuring psyche — to Cannes.
    — Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 5 Nov. 2025

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