There is an eclipse of the sun by the smoke from the ships getting under way; streaming, soaring columns of smoke on the move rise above the skyline from the funnels of the battleships before they appear around a bend.
Tongues of loose bricks had been shot across the cobblestones and dimly the jagged skyline of broken walls of buildings on either side could be discerned.
Overhead a million stars glittered so brightly in the keen air that they seemed suspended just above the serriedskyline of the bordering spruces.
Away on the skyline the jagged peaks of Kahlamba rose in a shimmer of haze.
That frieze of timber on theskyline limits my world, Mr Bryce.
Night gathered straight above in the cloudless zenith, while all the skyline still was luminous with clear light, and then the day snuffed out, and stars burst out in the dome of heaven like a rocket.
Toward evening, when the sun went down with the flare of a blast furnace, patrols of cavalry rode sharply across the skyline to the night outposts.
At Yermo there is nothing but leagues and leagues of sandy desert, sparsely covered with scrubby mesquite and dwarf cactus, stretching away on the west to jagged, tawny mountains, and on the east to a quivering skyline of plain.
Black shiny chaparral, the height of a mule's back, scraped the side of the coach; Spanish bayonet and the great barrel-cactus watched us like sentinels from the skyline of the desert.
Ruth was left alone, to watch the red glow on the skylineand try to see the outline of the watcher in the gloom below.
But then the skylineto the left, somehow, had the same look too.
After he had gone a good distance he looked around, and then the skyline behind him appeared to be singularly like that he remembered having seen on leaving the camp.
As the afternoon sun moved steadily toward the skyline of the western hills, the tireless activity of men and horses continued.
With skyline bounds from east to west And room to go and come, I loved my fellow man the best When he was scattered some.
He loves the old skyline he watches of nights And he don't seem to care for beyond.
The line of thy brow and forehead is quite noteworthy, even as theskyline of palaces ruined by an earthquake and buried beneath ashes.
Presently on the distant skyline a tremendous cloud of smoke hurled itself into the air.
Then they too vanished below the skyline and we lost them.
If this happens the hunter’s next view of him will be on a skyline which it would take human feet a couple of hours to reach, and the direct road to which appears impossible for anything without wings.
Towards the north the ground was open and level and treeless for a couple of miles; then it rose a little, and ended on the skyline with a biggish kopje to the north west.
But for much of the way wild woods towering to the skyline several hundred feet above, often, too, pathless, trackless woods, hold hill and stream alike in their sylvan grip.
A group of villages situated on the skyline of this saddle was our objective point at present, until we could take further bearings thence.
The heavens were ablaze with the thronging stars of the tropics, so we found we could make out the skyline of the distant butte over the rise of the plains.
But long before we had reached that alluring skyline we were halted by the gentle snapping of Mavrouki's fingers.
One afternoon a herd of giraffes stood silhouetted on this skyline quite a half hour gazing curiously down on our camp.
Surmounting a skyline is always most exciting anywhere, for what lies beyond is at once revealed as a whole and contains the very essence of the unknown; but most decidedly is this true in Africa.
A single tiny treelet broke the plain just at the skylineof the rise.
Then the council broke up, and when the last had gone Mowbray joined his wife on the veranda, where he sat looking with tired eyes toward the pale red glow on the skyline left by the setting sun.
He was one of the advance skirmishers, though the first scouts had already pushed on and vanished across the skyline into the virgin West.
The crimson flush on the skyline merged into rose and magenta and mauve.
The ridge on the right skyline, composed of the Entrada Sandstone, is The Windows Section of Arches National Park, and the left skyline shows faintly the distant Book Cliffs.
The prominent projection on Hatch Point on the left skyline is Needles Overlook, from which the photograph in figure 27 was taken.
Merrimac and Monitor Buttes on right skyline are shown in figure 12.
Indeed, scarcely had the dark forms of the two horses with their riders ceased to break the skyline upon one verge of the ravine, before Cabrera's men were clambering and shouting along the other.
No one among all that company had even a glance to waste upon the skyline of the Ermita de San Ildefonso.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "skyline" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: azimuth; horizon; outline
