How to Use harbinger in a Sentence

harbinger

noun

• Take courage, for the worst is a harbinger of the best.
  — Ben Sisario, New York Times, 5 Feb. 2018
• The results of those plays will be a harbinger for the result of the game.
  — Andy Benoit, SI.com, 19 Sep. 2019
• Take coverage for the worst is a harbinger of the best.
  — Lauren Alexis Fisher, Harper's BAZAAR, 29 Jan. 2018
• Just not the greatest harbinger of things to come for the Dodgers.
  — Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 31 Aug. 2022
• Turned out, that was a harbinger of bad things to come.
  — Ann Killion, San Francisco Chronicle, 14 Apr. 2022
• Our very alien dataome may just be the harbinger of things to come.
  — Scientific American, 13 May 2021
• 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 tactic was still shocking and a harbinger of what was soon to come.
  — Richard Pildes, Washington Post, 26 Apr. 2018
• That may be a harbinger of further price hikes to come.
  — Fortune, 17 Sep. 2021
• Texas fans shouldn’t take that date as a harbinger of any kind, by the way.
  — Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 9 Oct. 2020
• In hindsight, that game was a harbinger of things to come.
  — Joseph Goodman | [e-mail], al, 4 Dec. 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
• The swans overhead don’t seem like noise, rather the harbinger of late fall.
  — John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 9 Oct. 2022
• Unzipped was a harbinger of what was to come in fashion in many ways.
  — Jessica Iredale, Town & Country, 18 Oct. 2020
• Nothing like that happened, but the rhetoric was a harbinger of the unrest to come.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 20 Feb. 2021
• Gervin’s big opening night was a harbinger of things to come.
  — Kyle Ringo, San Antonio Express-News, 29 Jan. 2018
• Take those noisy harbingers of spring, the spring peeper.
  — Denise Coffey, Courant Community, 17 Apr. 2018
• Here's hoping that's not a harbinger of things to come.
  — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 18 Feb. 2020
• That might be a harbinger for the state if virus numbers don’t improve.
  — Chronicle Staff, SFChronicle.com, 5 Aug. 2020
• But Cole says the out-of-control truck was a harbinger.
  — Bloomberg.com, 3 May 2017
• Plump, shiny and brightly green, peas are a sweet harbinger of spring.
  — Jennifer Graue, The Mercury News, 2 Mar. 2017
• But the harbinger of that one pitch changed everything.
  — Marc Bona, cleveland.com, 11 Oct. 2017
• But what seemed like a fashion fad was really a harbinger of things to come.
  — Celia Reyer, Smithsonian, 23 Feb. 2017
• Brown was a harbinger of a reshuffling along the offensive front.
  — Michael Middlehurst-Schwartz, USA TODAY, 24 Mar. 2023
• Yet at home, it’s largely seen as a harbinger of progress.
  — Katarina Hoije, Bloomberg.com, 29 Aug. 2020
• 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
• But what seemed like a fashion fad was really a harbinger of things to come.
  — Celia Reyer, Smithsonian, 23 Feb. 2017
• The latest figure may be a harbinger of higher death tolls.
  — Luke Money, Los Angeles Times, 9 Dec. 2020

Last Updated: 27 Mar 2024