How to Use third dimension in a Sentence

third dimension

noun
  • And things like third dimension This was the style in the ‘30s and ‘40s, to introduce a song with a verse.
    BostonGlobe.com, 14 Apr. 2023
  • In the last couple of years there’s a third dimension that is deeper to the skin.
    Jamie Rosen, Town & Country, 30 Oct. 2022
  • And the third dimension happens only if the artist is open to hearing from the room.
    Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 5 Aug. 2022
  • To do that, scientists had to bring the cells into the third dimension.
    Megan Molteni, WIRED, 27 June 2018
  • So the third dimension is time, which cannot exist without space.
    Françoise Mouly, The New Yorker, 17 Feb. 2022
  • Thus, intriguingly, the color is flat but the lines hint at a third dimension.
    Washington Post, 17 Dec. 2021
  • But unlike humans in cars, drones have a third dimension to worry about.
    IEEE Spectrum, 12 Jan. 2016
  • That progress has slowed, so the industry is looking to the third dimension to improve performance.
    Aaron Pressman, Fortune, 1 June 2021
  • This work added a third dimension to what was previously seen as just surface slicks.
    Fox News, 13 Feb. 2020
  • So, La Frontera is a project where these two countries come together, and there is this third country, this third dimension that emerges.
    Claudia Alarcón, Forbes, 22 Mar. 2023
  • Folds in the cerebral cortex introduce a third dimension there too.
    R. Douglas Fields, Quanta Magazine, 19 Apr. 2023
  • This pen 3D prints materials so your child can take their drawings into the third dimension.
    Kai Burkhardt, CNN Underscored, 4 Dec. 2020
  • To understand how these defects lift a flat surface into the third dimension, imagine a bug crawling on a sheet of paper.
    Quanta Magazine, 6 Jan. 2015
  • Foveros takes that into the third dimension, enabling even greater density and a reduced footprint.
    Peter Bright, Ars Technica, 12 Dec. 2018
  • Submarines will likely shake it up all over again by adding a third dimension underwater.
    Gordon Mah Ung, PCWorld, 18 Sep. 2018
  • Stars that appear next to each other on the sky’s visual plane could actually be hundreds of light-years apart along that hidden third dimension, depth.
    Liz Kruesi, Discover Magazine, 1 June 2016
  • Keep peering at your screen, reading and staring, snubbing life’s third dimension and natural hues.
    Susan Crawford, WIRED, 27 Mar. 2018
  • Jack Harlow),’ is a Pop R&B track with clever expressions of feelings toward an unattainable person from the perspectives of first, second, and third dimensions.
    Ashley Iasimone, Billboard, 24 Sep. 2023
  • Combining the images gives a semblance of a third dimension, allowing the researchers to better see how the bacteria use their flagella.
    Scientific American, 30 Aug. 2019
  • Now, using the Doppler effect to add a third dimension to their data, astronomers have measured the speed of the moving plasma, as well as its direction, temperature and density.
    Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 6 Apr. 2018
  • The addition of a third dimension gives you more flexibility.
    Quanta Magazine, 5 Sep. 2018
  • Besides the basic business plan of taking something that has worked in the past and doing it again and again — the very definition of CBS, some would say, but certainly not unique to that network — franchising adds a sort of third dimension.
    Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 6 Oct. 2021
  • Well before any of this, Abbott’s readers will have guessed that they’re headed toward a fateful meeting between A Square and an interloper from Spaceland, the third dimension.
    John J. Miller, WSJ, 8 June 2018
  • Pats of fresh, cold butter, which your teeth slice into with satisfaction, add an optional (and recommended) third dimension to the sandwich.
    Bill Addison, Los Angeles Times, 7 Apr. 2022
  • Distortions of the genetic map tells about variations in elevation in the third dimension on the geographic map!
    Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 15 July 2010
  • Mapping the third dimension allowed Edwin Hubble to prove the reality of other galaxies and then to discover that the universe is expanding.
    Corey S Powell, Discover Magazine, 16 June 2013
  • But these simulations ignored the role of the third dimension, which is an important factor because as warmer air rises, cooler air is sucked in behind it, creating convection cells.
    The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 27 Sep. 2023
  • But, nearly invisibly, the war is also being waged along a third dimension: intelligence.
    Mark Galeotti, Foreign Affairs, 30 Oct. 2014
  • Instead, the new measurements using the Doppler effect add a third dimension to the data, allowing scientists to construct a more complete picture of the magnetic-field structure that supports the plasma, according to the statement.
    Samantha Mathewson, Space.com, 11 Apr. 2018
  • Much like wallpapering, mirroring, or painting a ceiling, this trend incorporates the fifth wall to really complete a room by creating depth and intrigue from above—except this time, in the third dimension.
    Hadley Mendelsohn, House Beautiful, 14 Apr. 2022

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