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Example sentences using the word horizon:The ship sailed off into the horizon.In the distant horizon, the smoke from the volcano could clearly be seen.Dark storm clouds have started to appear in the Eastern horizon.
It's the shape of a ship's sails.
An old Navy tradition has it that the ship's cook shines the ship's bell and the ship's bugler shines the ship's whistle. This tradition may still be observed in some of the ships of the modern Navy. However, in normal practice, the ship's bell is maintained by a man of the ships' division charged with the upkeep of that part of the ship where the bell is located.
A ship-shaped clock is called a "nef"
the bridge the place where the crew controls the ship
The boys couldn't signal the passing ship because the ship was too far away for them to see or be seen, or the signal they attempted to use was not effective in attracting the ship's attention. Additionally, environmental conditions such as weather or obstacles may have hindered their efforts to signal the ship.
Ralph spotted a faint plume of smoke, from the funnel of a ship out at sea, on the horizon.
The boys looked for their own smoke to signal the ship but it had gone out.
The ship you signal is the ship that gives you the island medallion.
the fire on top of the mountain was out. Jack had taken the boys who were supposed to be keeping the fire alight away to hunt, meaning the fire was unattended and there was no smoke for a ship to see and hence the boys be rescued
Ralph spots a ship on the horizon that is passing by the island.
they couldnt get there ship over the blockades
The ship that carried all the survivors could be clearly seen along the horizon.
In "Lord of the Flies," the boys were unable to signal the passing ship because Jack and his tribe had neglected their duty to tend the signal fire. When the boys needed to alert the ship, the fire had gone out, and the opportunity to be rescued was missed.
Once Ralph spots the ship, he realizes that it may be their only chance of rescue and tries to signal it by waving a branch frantically. He then rushes back to the camp to gather the other boys and lead them towards the beach to create a signal fire in order to attract the attention of the ship.
There's not a single cloud on the horizon. The expiration of the loan loomed like a dark cloud on their company's horizon.
There was nothing for the ship to respond to. If the island was on the ship's charts it would have been marked as uninhabited (which is was before the arrival of the boys) so the ship would have had no reason to visit it. The signal fire had gone out so there was no smoke to attract the attention of the ship to the fact that there were people on the island.