I gazed out at the horizon and watched the sun disappear beneath it. The ship sailed toward the horizon, fading into the distance. The mountains on the horizon looked majestic in the evening light.
Ol' BETSY, or maybe... ol' rustbucket.
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.
Ships appear to disappear over the horizon due to the curvature of the Earth. As a ship moves away from an observer, it eventually reaches a point where the curvature of the Earth blocks the line of sight between the observer and the ship, making it seem as though the ship has disappeared.
Celestial navigation is a method used to determine a ship's position by observing the positions of the sun, moon, stars, and planets. This technique involves measuring the angle between the horizon and a celestial body to calculate the ship's latitude and longitude.
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
they couldnt get there ship over the blockades
Ralph spotted the smoke from a passing ship on the horizon in chapter 4: Painted Faces and Long Hair.
The ship was passing the island at a distance and if the island was marked on its navigatonal charts it would probably have been logged as being uninhabited (which it was before the boys landed there). If the signal fire on the mountain top had been lit and producing smoke that may well have attracted the attention of the ship and it may have decided to investigate. As things stood, the ship had no reason to investigate the island.
The ship that carried all the survivors could be clearly seen along the horizon.
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 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.
There's not a single cloud on the horizon. The expiration of the loan loomed like a dark cloud on their company's horizon.