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How can you use “fissures” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

Sharks and rays patrol the waterways, eels and lobsters lurk in the crevices and fissures.
Created by erosion of the limestone rock, these holes have a layer of fresh water that lies on top and tidal sea water below; sea water forced in through countless underground fissures causes their water levels to rise or fall with the tides.
But the episode in Poland, called Polish October, exposed fissures in the Communist regime, and it served as the impetus for a slight relaxation of censorship, religious repression, and economic controls.
‘We normally see more infection where we have more corrugation, and that's because water accumulates in the fissures … where the zoospores have a chance to infect the bark.
(A separate NYT "Week in Review" piece describes the debilitating fissures within U.S. and international strategies for handling Iraq.)