How to Use on the horizon in a Sentence

on the horizon

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  • If the Tigers can’t turn around their season, a fire sale could be on the horizon.
    — Cody Stavenhagen, New York Times, 29 June 2026
  • Small business owners see this new mandate as hope on the horizon.
    — Steve Large, CBS News, 1 July 2026
  • The day Taylor Swift has been dreaming of, and writing songs about, appears to be on the horizon.
    — Rebecca Cohen, NBC news, 2 July 2026
  • Meanwhile, an uncertain future is on the horizon for the workers who load cargo where the lake and river meet.
    — Talia Soglin, Chicago Tribune, 5 July 2026
  • This is not a permanent pantry overhaul—just seasonal adjustments worth making when a stretch of heat is on the horizon.
    — Anne Wolf, Martha Stewart, 1 July 2026
  • Let the weak ones go, and hold onto the strong ones, because the math points to a real shortage of senior developers on the horizon.
    — Neo Lee, Forbes.com, 29 June 2026
  • Because simply keeping their own, while letting their young players continue to marinate, will only take them so far with no more top-five picks likely on the horizon.
    — Kevin Kurz, New York Times, 2 July 2026
  • Artificial intelligence is no longer something on the horizon.
    — Allen Buchanan, Oc Register, 4 July 2026
  • This happens because moonlight must pass through a thicker layer of Earth's atmosphere when the moon is low on the horizon, scattering shorter wavelengths of light and allowing warmer colors to dominate.
    — Daisy Dobrijevic, Space.com, 29 June 2026
  • News broke Wednesday that Meta Platforms plans to start a cloud computing business, prompting speculation that the first signs of waning demand for computing capacity may be starting to appear on the horizon.
    — Tobias Burns, CNBC, 2 July 2026
  • With Frankel’s strategic and financial involvement and a new global retail distribution launch on the horizon, DpHue is projecting a 32 to 40 percent increase in year-over-year net sales.
    — Kaleigh Werner, Footwear News, 29 June 2026
  • The Philadelphia International Airport is continuing to welcome visitors coming to the area for the FIFA World Cup, upcoming 4th of July festivities and other America 250 events on the horizon.
    — Kaitlyn McCormick, USA Today, 29 June 2026

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