Sample sentences for HARBINGER

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Definition

an indication of the approach of something — especially something bad

The warm summer is a harbinger of things to come.

harbinger = an indication of the approach of something

Make all our trumpets speak; give them all breath,
Those clamorous harbingers of blood and death.
William Shakespeare -- Macbeth

harbingers = indications of the approach of something

And yonder shines Aurora's harbinger
William Shakespeare -- A Midsummer Night's Dream

harbinger = an indication of the approach of something

I am afraid I am not altogether a harbinger of good; and yet, too, I am to a certain extent a messenger of peace.
Henry James -- Washington Square

harbinger = an indication of the approach of something

And hung throughout the city were the dwarves' flameless lanterns, their multicolored sparks harbingers of the Beors' long dusk and night.
Christopher Paolini -- Eldest

harbingers = an indication of the approach of something

This plunged the island into a mild panic and many of the mothers feared that the man was the harbinger of the law.
Pat Conroy -- The Water is Wide
It was one of those lovely harbingers of spring, given as a sign in dreary winter that earth is not forsaken of warmth and beauty.
Theodore Dreiser -- Sister Carrie
Some carrion birds-harbingers, I think the locals call them-had come in through the broken glass doors in the dining hall and were finishing the feast.
Dan Simmons -- Hyperion
The harbinger of bad news.
Pittacus Lore -- I Am Number Four
And, like harbingers of the coming spring, one by one motorcars started to appear on the deserted roads.
Nevil Shute -- On the Beach
The whitening sky was the harbinger of day.
Zane Grey -- The Heritage of the Desert
Not a cloud was visible, and she secretly fancied the circumstance might be taken as a harbinger of peace and security.
James Fenimore Cooper -- The Pathfinder
"She's heard an owl calling in the night; that's a harbinger of death.
Libba Bray -- Sweet Far Thing
And then there came the harbingers from King Arthur for to harbour him, and his kings, dukes, earls, barons, and knights.
Thomas Malory -- Le Morte D'Arthur, Volume I
They swept toward her, harbingers of the storm that was to come.
Sarah J. Maas -- Throne of Glass
CHAPTER XXXIII IN THE SUN—A HARBINGER A week passed, and there were no tidings of Bathsheba; nor was there any explanation of her Gilpin's rig.
Thomas Hardy -- Far from the Madding Crowd
The sun rose, the morning of her nuptials, on a day so bright and cloudless, that Inez hailed it as a harbinger of future happiness.
James Fenimore Cooper -- The Prairie
The hour is still distant, but I feel already those harbingers, those outriders, figures of one's friends in absence.
Virginia Woolf -- The Waves
He is the child of all my foregoing hours, the prophet of those to come, and the harbinger[307] of a greater friend.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Selected Essays
They were the harbingers sent to survey the land.
Chinua Achebe -- Things Fall Apart

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