harbinger

How To Use harbinger In A Sentence

• Relaxing, in amusement at her unwonted altruism of motive, she had drawn her moleskin coat more closely around her, and settled back to wait the other woman's pleasure in returning to the bright warmth that the pale-orange ribbon of light, wavering upon the swaying platform, harbingered. Undesirables
• It's just that its call is the harbinger of spring - a signal to start chucking chlorine into the swimming pool.
• Insiders say that rumblings behind the scenes at ABC's ‘Nightline’ are harbingers of possible dramatic news about the show's future.
• His fondness for chromaticism was such that Schoenberg suspected he would soon join the ranks of the atonalists, but for Reger chromaticism was a means of expanding the resources of tonality, not a harbinger of its imminent collapse.
• Already, over unknown trails and chartless wildernesses, were the harbingers of the steel arriving, — fair-faced, blue-eyed, indomitable men, incarnations of the unrest of their race. “The Kipling of the Klondike”: Naturalism in London's Early Fiction
• Was that a harbinger of things to come? The Collins History of the World in the 20th Century
• This proved a harbinger for the summer, the wettest in 100 years. Times, Sunday Times
• Consumer and business confidence are plunging as a harbinger of a sharp slowdown in economic growth next year. Times, Sunday Times
• It will be interesting to see whether this agreement is a one-shot deal, or a harbinger of more to come.
• In some ways, they said, the midterms were not as bleak a harbinger as some Democrats fear. 'Soul-searching' inside the White House