The last stars of the constellations dropped their clusters a little lower on the desert horizon and became still.

The shadowy outlines of an industrial park loomed above the desert horizon.

Just a flash of yellow light that spread across the desert horizon for an instant, and then faded.

It was as though the hot and oppressive cloud of the khamsin, the terrible Saharan sandstorm, was building up on the desert horizon.

And then later: a procession of camels making their slow way across a desert horizon.

The city behind them, Basra, presented an apocalyptic landscape, jet black smoke from burning oil fires spilling over the flat desert horizon.

The desert horizons offer neither the prospect of more generous rain nor the terrain to utilize the rain that does fall.

The very heavens seemed to quiver with blue fire, and the far desert horizons were washed away by the shimmering glassy whirlpools of heat mirage.

Repeated horizontal lines, which diminish in size, suggest the vastness of a desert horizon.

It was sundown, his end would come with the orange sun descending over the desert horizon.