How to Use harbinger in a Sentence

harbinger

noun
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  • Take courage, for the worst is a harbinger of the best.
    — Ben Sisario, New York Times, 5 Feb. 2018
  • Then there’s the sound of flies, harbingers of a death scene.
    — Kaely Monahan, The Arizona Republic, 27 Mar. 2024
  • In the fraught post-9/11 era, the ad was also a harbinger of things to come.
    — New York Times, 9 Nov. 2021
  • The results of those plays will be a harbinger for the result of the game.
    — Andy Benoit, SI.com, 19 Sep. 2019
  • Just not the greatest harbinger of things to come for the Dodgers.
    — Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 31 Aug. 2022
  • Our very alien dataome may just be the harbinger of things to come.
    — Scientific American, 13 May 2021
  • Texas fans shouldn’t take that date as a harbinger of any kind, by the way.
    — Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 9 Oct. 2020
  • Turned out, that was a harbinger of bad things to come.
    — Ann Killion, San Francisco Chronicle, 14 Apr. 2022
  • Will the erosion of wealth in the Philippines be a harbinger of the future?
    — Justin Doebele, Forbes, 12 Aug. 2022
  • Last year was a harbinger of things to come, Lauer said.
    — Zoya Teirstein, WIRED, 17 Feb. 2024
  • But Cole says the out-of-control truck was a harbinger.
    — Bloomberg.com, 3 May 2017
  • Take coverage for the worst is a harbinger of the best.
    — Lauren Alexis Fisher, Harper's BAZAAR, 29 Jan. 2018
  • The swans overhead don’t seem like noise, rather the harbinger of late fall.
    — John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 9 Oct. 2022
  • Those storms are a harbinger of a new air mass that’s about to set up shop for a few days.
    — Washington Post, 21 June 2021
  • Yet harbingers of this shake-up and the scale of its impact have been in plain sight for months.
    — Nic Robertson, CNN, 15 Mar. 2023
  • In hindsight, that game was a harbinger of things to come.
    — Joseph Goodman | Jgoodman@al.com, al, 4 Dec. 2022
  • But the tactic was still shocking and a harbinger of what was soon to come.
    — Richard Pildes, Washington Post, 26 Apr. 2018
  • Was this body a harbinger of a complete breakdown in the city?
    — Colin Dickey, Longreads, 30 Mar. 2022
  • Turned out those two clutch swings were a small harbinger.
    — Randy Rosetta, The Courier-Journal, 3 June 2018
  • But the hip pain was a harbinger of the inevitable, so Murray used it to serve up his next shot.
    — Brett Knight, Forbes, 30 Aug. 2021
  • Plump, shiny and brightly green, peas are a sweet harbinger of spring.
    — Jennifer Graue, The Mercury News, 2 Mar. 2017
  • For Pinto, the high end's travails are a harbinger for what's to come.
    — Byshawn Tully, Fortune, 22 Oct. 2022
  • Nothing like that happened, but the rhetoric was a harbinger of the unrest to come.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 20 Feb. 2021
  • That may be a harbinger of further price hikes to come.
    — Fortune, 17 Sep. 2021
  • Here's hoping that's not a harbinger of things to come.
    — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 18 Feb. 2020
  • The ballooning cash spent on the 2022 Senate race could be a harbinger of things to come.
    — Andrew J. Tobias, cleveland, 5 Jan. 2023
  • Gervin’s big opening night was a harbinger of things to come.
    — Kyle Ringo, San Antonio Express-News, 29 Jan. 2018
  • Nine of the Celtics’ first 10 shots came from beyond the 3-point arc, and that was a harbinger, not an accident.
    — Adam Himmelsbach, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Nov. 2022
  • Unzipped was a harbinger of what was to come in fashion in many ways.
    — Jessica Iredale, Town & Country, 18 Oct. 2020
  • Take those noisy harbingers of spring, the spring peeper.
    — Denise Coffey, Courant Community, 17 Apr. 2018

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