Example sentences for: harbinger

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

  • President Clinton's State of the Union address was greeted around the world this week as the possible harbinger of another miraculous comeback.

  • In any event, by the 1940s groovy had expanded beyond the jazz world and--a harbinger of what would happen in the 1960s and '70s--was being used by nongroovy adults in a typically pathetic attempt to seem hip.

  • His 1993 economic plan, which passed with zero Republican votes, included a tax increase that was smaller in real terms than the one Bush agreed to in 1990, but was equally significant as a harbinger of changed direction.

  • 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.

  • In the wake of the pullback, the NYT notices a harbinger of the region's next problem: the reemergence of Albanian freedom fighters.


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