There was something Maurice-shaped lying beside him, like a three-dimensional shadow.

She calls Duchamp's readymades "three-dimensional shadows" of his "fourth-dimensional creativity machine."

Going the other way, one may infer that light shone on a four-dimensional object in a four-dimensional world would cast a three-dimensional shadow.

Nothing seemed to change, but he was seeing only the three-dimensional shadow.

He was a blackness-a three-dimensional shadow.

Images of Lilith hung in the air behind her for a moment, like three-dimensional shadows, before fading.

He could see the distant movement of vennals high overhead, spiralling round trunks and branches like three-dimensional shadows.

It was like Emolirdo's aborted demonstration - a three-dimensional shadow cast into a two-dimensional universe.

You created a man with a three-dimensional shadow.

Those live in the full higher-dimensional space, and we see only their three-dimensional "shadows."