How to Use bellwether in a Sentence

bellwether

noun

• High-tech bellwethers led the decline in the stock market.
• She is a bellwether of fashion.
• And as in 2008, the Sun Belt could serve as a sort of bellwether.
  — New York Times, 18 Aug. 2022
• The deal is considered a bellwether for the health of the IPO market.
  — Byluisa Beltran, Fortune, 15 Sep. 2023
• Once a bellwether, the state no longer swings with the national mood.
  — Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 23 July 2023
• Many look to FedEx as a bellwether of the global economy.
  — Julia Malleck, Quartz, 15 Mar. 2023
• Harden’s play has mostly served as a bellwether for the 76ers in this series.
  — Adam Himmelsbach, BostonGlobe.com, 14 May 2023
• During her two decades in New York, Davis’s presence on the bandstand was a kind of bellwether.
  — Jon Garelick, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Aug. 2023
• The Golden Globes have never been a bellwether for what will happen at the Emmys.
  — Lacey Rose, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Jan. 2024
• Which makes Venice all the more important as a bellwether for the indie business.
  — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 Aug. 2022
• This matchup has been, in recent years, the bellwether for AFC South leadership.
  — Scott Horner, The Indianapolis Star, 29 Sep. 2022
• Home values are an important bellwether of how home prices might trend in the short-term.
  — Khristopher J. Brooks, CBS News, 20 Sep. 2022
• Throughout the course of the pandemic, Europe has been considered a bellwether of what's come in the U.S.
  — Youri Benadjaoud, ABC News, 18 Oct. 2022
• The state was seen as a bellwether for the nation, if not the future of democracy globally.
  — Richard Ruelas, The Arizona Republic, 8 Nov. 2022
• Guatemala has long been a bellwether for Latin America.
  — Time, 19 Aug. 2023
• Job cuts economy-wide are at a near-historic low but tech could be a bellwether.
  — Max Zahn, ABC News, 18 Jan. 2024
• What is certain is that a vital bellwether of book culture has been lost.
  — Kyle Chayka, The New Yorker, 19 Dec. 2022
• Soap operas were among the earliest shows to move from radio to TV, and this move is likely a bellwether too.
  — Ed Stockly, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2022
• So the San Diego case has become a bellwether during a time when leftist protests are flaring up across the country.
  — Will Carless, USA TODAY, 17 Mar. 2023
• The polls are seen as a bellwether for general elections later this year.
  — Shaiq Hussain, Washington Post, 12 May 2023
• The county located in the far northwestern part of Pennsylvania is seen as a bellwether for the rest of the state.
  — Sarah Ewall-Wice, CBS News, 12 Aug. 2022
• The European honors are often viewed as a bellwether for the Oscars.
  — Patrick Brzeski, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Nov. 2022
• So is Ohio, which for so many years was the nation’s top political bellwether.
  — Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 9 Nov. 2022
• And her sentencing may be seen as a bellwether for future white-collar fraud.
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 18 Nov. 2022
• Analysts have pointed to Virginia as an early bellwether for how the night may go for Democrats.
  — Kristina Peterson, WSJ, 8 Nov. 2022
• But housing is a bellwether for the rest of the economy, and these contractions will inevitably weigh on broader US growth.
  — Nicole Goodkind, CNN, 28 Oct. 2022
• But Huntsinger does not consider the Colorado fest an award season bellwether.
  — Addie Morfoot, Variety, 2 Sep. 2022
• But the city is also a bellwether, experts say, offering a possible glimpse at the future of the movement.
  — Babak Dehghanpisheh, Washington Post, 19 Feb. 2023
• The auction was seen as a bellwether for investor appetite for U.K. government debt in the wake of the recent turmoil, bond dealers said.
  — Anna Hirtenstein, WSJ, 27 Sep. 2022
• The case was widely seen as a bellwether of Democrats’ ambitious plans to rein in Silicon Valley.
  — Caroline O'Donovan, Washington Post, 11 July 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024