harbingers
- plural of harbinger.
Example Sentences
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Whales, she said, can be harbingers of bigger changes under the surface of the ocean.
From BBC • Apr. 19, 2026
They are also matter-of-fact, heralds of hard facts rather than harbingers of national guilt in a story to which we think we know the ending.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 13, 2025
Modern Western culture caricatures vultures as undertakers, grim harbingers of death and hardly ideal images of maternal love.
From Salon • May 11, 2025
Washcloths are particularly controversial: “People get really riled up, like, ‘Washcloths are harbingers of bacteria,’ and ‘If you don’t use a washcloth, you’re dirty.’
From Slate • Nov. 2, 2024
They are the first harbingers of a tradition of portraiture that will continue unbroken until the collapse of the Roman Empire.
From "History of Art, Volume 1" by H.W. Janson
