the horizon

noun

: the line where the earth or sea seems to meet the sky

The sun rose slowly over/above the eastern horizon.

Examples of the horizon in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The company was born out of a desire to expand the availability of Asian cinema in North America, but also to broaden the horizon of what could be distributed on home video and in cinemas. — José Salazar, IndieWire, 24 Aug. 2026

One major bonus of a lunar eclipse is that each stage unfolds simultaneously for everyone on the night side of Earth, where the lunar disk is above the horizon. — Anthony Wood, Space.com, 24 Aug. 2026

There are some places on earth where the landscape seems too vast to photograph, where the horizon is broken only by mountains, sea ice and the occasional dark shape of an animal moving across the white. — Sarah Kingdom, Forbes.com, 23 Aug. 2026

As the sun dips below the horizon, a fleet of onlookers on jet skis and boats idle on the water to catch a peek of the vivacious scene. — Kailyn Brown, Los Angeles Times, 21 Aug. 2026

Rhymes for the horizon

• spiegeleisen
• mizen