Example sentences for: harbinger

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

  • 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.

  • Friedman may be guilty of the fatuous contention that no two countries with McDonald's franchises have ever gone to war with each other, but Rieff, in Los Angeles , indulges in some fast-food mysticism of his own when he sees a harbinger of our globalized, miscegenated, Third World future in the advent of the pita fajita.

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

  • 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 new version of the old theory: The parasites are a harbinger of a poisoned environment.


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