How to Use harbinger in a Sentence

harbinger

noun
  • Is this all a harbinger of next year’s midterms?
    — Boston Herald Editorial Staff, Boston Herald, 6 Nov. 2025
  • Might this be some kind of harbinger?
    — David John Chávez, Mercury News, 3 Mar. 2026
  • But that story was a harbinger of what was to come.
    — Reia Li, AZCentral.com, 26 Oct. 2025
  • This latest case is a harbinger of what’s to come.
    — Yael Ossowski, Oc Register, 23 Dec. 2025
  • Hood said the dry spell isn't a harbinger of an arid spring season.
    — Bill Bowden, Arkansas Online, 1 Jan. 2026
  • These could be harbingers of bigger things to come.
    — Big Think, 13 Oct. 2025
  • And, if last week’s sell-off in tech stocks is a harbinger, that moment may not be very far away.
    — John Cassidy, New Yorker, 8 June 2026
  • For avid fans, this fruit of the forest is the paramount harbinger of spring.
    — Midwest Living, 3 Apr. 2026
  • The Dash is also a harbinger of death.
    — Leanna Renee Hieber, Big Think, 2 Oct. 2025
  • McAuliff’s success may be a harbinger of next year’s midterms.
    — Charlie Campbell, Time, 11 Dec. 2025
  • Those two plays were pretty much a harbinger for the rest of the Jackets’ first half.
    — Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 30 Aug. 2025
  • The move broke a string of three straight cuts and could be a harbinger of a central bank not of a mind to ease again anytime soon.
    — Jeff Cox, CNBC, 28 Jan. 2026
  • Today, Score is a harbinger of a new kind of digital-era book deal.
    — Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 10 Mar. 2026
  • But if his early production is a harbinger of things to come, that could quickly change.
    — Mac Cerullo, Boston Herald, 21 Mar. 2026
  • Lily is, ominously, a creature of the present and a harbinger of the future.
    — Justin Chang, New Yorker, 19 June 2026
  • Is this a harbinger for the November midterms?
    — Phaedra Trethan, USA Today, 3 Feb. 2026
  • One harbinger of this is the fact that many of the contestants who star in this season of the show are either cringe, mean, or both.
    — Stephanie McNeal, Glamour, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Cool-toned makeup — like a beauty harbinger of autumn — is rising.
    — Noor Lobad, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019
  • As both fine theater and a harbinger for what stock-car racing will look like in the future, this trial is well worth watching.
    — Scott Fowler, Charlotte Observer, 4 Dec. 2025
  • Then come the sporadic blossoms of the ivy over the next few weeks, and every new homestand is a harbinger for what lies ahead.
    — Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 5 May 2026
  • And this seems a harbinger, given that cursive has been cut from the Common Core.
    — Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 1 Apr. 2026
  • Few harbingers are more promising than the Swedish singer and producer Robyn.
    — Sheldon Pearce, New Yorker, 26 Dec. 2025
  • Today the building is closed to the public and encircled by a moat, a harbinger of the fort’s inevitable fate.
    — Nathaniel Rich, Harpers Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
  • The trend may be a harbinger for more widespread changes, and the researchers plan to continue tracking the data.
    — Gwendolyn Rak, IEEE Spectrum, 24 Sep. 2025
  • Trump described the city as a harbinger of what unchecked migration could mean for America.
    — Ray Sanchez, CNN Money, 2 Sep. 2025
  • In retrospect, maybe that should’ve been viewed less as a rallying cry and more of a harbinger of what was to come in his first calendar year.
    — Zack Rosenblatt, New York Times, 28 Jan. 2026
  • Another harbinger is that the annual ski movies are coming soon to a theater or brewpub near you.
    — John Meyer, Denver Post, 22 Oct. 2025
  • And then there is Broomfield County, which is either an anomaly or a harbinger.
    — Aldo Svaldi, Denver Post, 23 Dec. 2025
  • The tariffs case is thus a harbinger of the far-reaching executive-power problem of this era.
    — Jeannie Suk Gersen, New Yorker, 6 Nov. 2025
  • Gunson assesses that the tanker seizure is not a harbinger of war, but instead a doubling down of the pressure campaign.
    — Chris Boccia, ABC News, 12 Dec. 2025

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