horizonless
AmericanEtymology
Origin of horizonless
Example Sentences
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They are noticers despite the days of horizonless work.
From Seattle Times
Looking out from the ship's deck, a person sees a horizonless cavity—unless it is dotted by needles of light spouting from the headlamps of a couple of distant human beings at work—an otherworldly scene not unlike being on the moon.
From Scientific American
In California, where Steyer lives in Sea Cliff, an ultraexclusive San Francisco neighborhood with a horizonless view of the Pacific, they’ve banned single-use plastic grocery bags.
From Washington Post
In the opening section, we find ourselves literally at sea in a clip from Brazilian filmmaker Glauber Rocha’s 1967 “Entranced Earth,” showing, in aerial view, a swelling, glittering, apparently horizonless Atlantic Ocean.
From New York Times
Across those valleys a great wall stood, a wall of ice, and raising our eyes up and still up to the rim of the wall we saw the Ice itself, the Gobrin Glacier, blinding and horizonless to the utmost north, a white, a white the eyes could not look on.
From Literature
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