Example Sentences

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Amid the tens of thousands of people who attended the 11th annual Outside Lands music festival in San Francisco’s Golden Gate park this weekend, one face stood out, two-dimensionally speaking: Barack Obama’s.

From The Guardian • Aug. 13, 2018

But Michele also recreated the same accents two-dimensionally, a neck ruffle or a belt with sequence and beads.

From Washington Times • Sep. 23, 2015

Among the quirky, complex male characters on Girls is an artist named Booth Jonathan, who is portrayed two-dimensionally as an arrogant egotist.

From Slate • Dec. 3, 2014

Mathematicians generally work with “projections,” or diagrams, of knots, ways of drawing them two-dimensionally.

From Scientific American • Jan. 12, 2013

I’d been working on the Large-Billed Puffins all September, and most of the time I was working on the stupid fading foot, because an artist doesn’t draw two-dimensionally, in case you didn’t know.

From "Okay for Now" by Gary D. Schmidt