Example sentences for: harbinger

How can you use “harbinger” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The digital box may well be the harbinger of a truly wired future, once the struggle over which technologies will be included in it is resolved and the cable companies figure out how to get subscribers to pay for it.

  • Most analysts cite two reasons for the market's downturn: an unexpectedly large increase in the product price index (generally a harbinger of inflation), and comments by Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan warning banks to keep plenty of reserves.

  • The old theory: The frogs are a harbinger of a "poisoned environment," possibly caused by industrial chemicals or erosion of the ozone layer.

  • Then the counterpoint, the explicit projection of the young woman's company as the harbinger of hope: It is helping over 1 million women, and she, its human face, is tireless in her effort to find a drug that will enable a woman to "climb stairs without fear, stand a little taller."

  • A cow is blown up during an exercise, and the Americans are showered with bloody chunks of beef--a harbinger of the insane slaughter to come.


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