How to Use avant in a Sentence

avant

adjective

• The avant-garde beauty looks were just the tip of the iceberg, too.
  — Katie Campione, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Aug. 2020
• The result is a sound at once medieval and avant-garde.
  — Brian Dillon, The New Yorker, 8 Apr. 2022
• Leave it up to the 42-year-old to pull off the bangs of our dreams and an eye-catching avant-garde dress.
  — Chaise Sanders, Country Living, 15 Jan. 2023
• But the images in the park were much more avant-garde than the Disney cartoons.
  — Perri Klass, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 May 2022
• Along the way, she's come into her own as a lover of bold, avant-garde fashion.
  — Catherine Santino, Peoplemag, 12 Sep. 2022
• Above, watch the avant-garde couple show off a few of their favorite things.
  — Elise Taylor, Vogue, 30 Sep. 2021
• Ferlinghetti was clear-eyed about the fate of most avant-garde work.
  — Emma Brown, Anchorage Daily News, 23 Feb. 2021
• The other was Sun Ra, the avant-garde pianist and bandleader who died in 1993.
  — Richard Sandomir, New York Times, 9 Aug. 2020
• Its creation tells the fate of an avant-garde woman who was ahead of her time.
  — Allyson Portee, Forbes, 16 Apr. 2021
• His avant-garde Bazaar by José Andrés bows late this year.
  — Kathryn Romeyn, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Aug. 2022
• These are intractable, meaty problems, the kinds avant-garde artists used to want to explore.
  — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 2 Sep. 2021
• Others likened the avant garde shape of Kendall's look to a scrunchie, a car airbag, a marshmallow, or a comforter.
  — Hannah Oh, Seventeen, 27 June 2023
• To most observers, the piece looks like an avant-garde headpiece or necklace.
  — Eliza Huber, refinery29.com, 27 July 2021
• Short films promote the poll’s avant-garde elitism: Meshes of the Afternoon, La Jetée.
  — Armond White, National Review, 7 Dec. 2022
• But in the art world, she is known as a pioneer of avant-garde performance art.
  — Washington Post, 16 Mar. 2022
• But Lennon’s celebrity meant that Ono could no longer come and go quietly on the avant-garde stage.
  — The New Yorker, 25 July 2022
• In 1983, it was seen as avant-garde enough for the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
  — Los Angeles Times, 19 Mar. 2022
• And Fendi’s spring 2023 show modernized the mess by adding an avant-garde swipe of silver along the lash line.
  — Paige Stables, Allure, 19 Dec. 2022
• Bloom, 44, sported an avant-garde black harness over a crisp white shirt with black pants.
  — Nicholas Rice, PEOPLE.com, 6 July 2021
• Her tracks were avant-garde, arty stuff that really rocked out!
  — A.d. Amorosi, Variety, 18 Feb. 2022
• The staff’s uniforms were designed by Bourie, an avant-garde fashion brand based in Seoul.
  — Alyson Sheppard, Robb Report, 18 Nov. 2021
• But Van Gogh and his fellow avant-garde painters were mostly hostile to the medium.
  — Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 2 Oct. 2022
• Her postmortem voice-over is more than an avant-garde gimmick.
  — Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 Dec. 2020
• Those items are inspired by avant-garde art, Downing said.
  — Dewayne Bevil, Orlando Sentinel, 13 Jan. 2023
• The 20 to 25 looks are a blend of Jason’s friend John Byrd-Olivieri’s classic aesthetic and his own more avant-garde feel.
  — Rodney Ho, ajc, 4 Apr. 2022
• As a result, Subarus were just a bit too avant-garde to cut it in suburbia.
  — Car and Driver, 28 Sep. 2022
• This slowcore band called Duster, shoegaze rock, this avant-garde pop band called Broadcast.
  — Neena Rouhani, Billboard, 21 Jan. 2022
• Take this avant-garde creation, the latest to join the Project Z collection—only 300 of them were made.
  — Leena Kim, Town & Country, 9 Dec. 2022
• Fox, who recently released her new memoir Down the Drain, has an affinity for all that is avant garde fashion.
  — Charna Flam, Peoplemag, 26 Oct. 2023
• Flood refers to Bowie’s ability to create arty records that bring the avant garde into the everyday, with hits that anyone could hum along to, reflecting Reznor’s own pop nous.
  — Adam Steiner, SPIN, 8 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 14 Dec 2024