harbinger

IPA: hˈɑrbɪndʒɝ

A person or thing that foreshadows or foretells the coming of someone or something.
(obsolete) One who provides lodgings; especially, the officer of the English royal household who formerly preceded the court when travelling, to provide and prepare lodgings.

Examples of "harbinger" in Sentences

You are the harbinger of communism.
He was the harbinger of the Messiah, Jesus.
He is impatient to see the harbinger of the gift.
The album is considered the harbinger of deathrock.
Galway was the harbinger of the fatal crisis to come.
I have to say I've never been called a harbinger before.
She is the herald of the apocalypse, the harbinger of death.
They are the heralds of death, thou art the harbinger of life.
He is often the harbinger of bad news to the rest of the gang.
A harbinger was the first run of fish in the St. Lawrence River.
The Broker is hired by Harbinger to acquire the body of Commander Shepard.
His poetry was published in The Harbinger and The Dial among other publications.
In some ways, they said, the midterms were not as bleak a harbinger as some Democrats fear.
Therefore, the JOLT survey is seen as a near - to mid-term harbinger of future hiring - and two straight months of declines sends a clear signal that joblessness won't be declining.
In what lobbyists are calling a harbinger of possible upheaval on Capitol Hill, many who make a living influencing government have gone from mostly shunning Democrats to aggressively recruiting them as lobbyists over the past six months or so.
The harbinger is the situation in Mexico, where the cartels are mounting armed attacks on officials, driving them to take repressive measures that are building resentment among ordinary citizens, many of whom are coming to see police and military as more of a threat than the cartelistas.