How to Use avant in a Sentence
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Its creation tells the fate of an avant-garde woman who was ahead of her time.
— Allyson Portee, Forbes, 16 Apr. 2021 -
Both stars even channelled their characters’s avant-garde style with their own bold fashion choices.
— Christian Allaire, Vogue, 8 Mar. 2021 -
On the runway, Kandy’s dress is cool, avant-garde, and editorial.
— Paul McCallion, Vulture, 5 Mar. 2021 -
Go too modern and avant-garde and the hotel loses its charm, and the memories of nearly 100 years are sullied.
— BostonGlobe.com, 27 Mar. 2021 -
The performances and scenery changed week to week — candlelit tarot sessions, avant-garde dance recitals, sensory-deprivation play.
— Los Angeles Times, 21 Mar. 2021 -
On Sundays, the station has shows devoted to jazz, classical music, avant-garde, swing music and female creators.
— Piet Levy, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 15 Mar. 2021 -
Entertainers arrived on the carpet in avant-garde gowns, artful suits, breathtaking dresses, and couture moments.
— Nandi Howard, Essence, 25 Apr. 2021 -
The avant-garde textiles, which featured floral motifs, paisleys, and abstract patterns, achieved immediate, widespread acclaim.
— Jessica Bennett, Better Homes & Gardens, 14 Apr. 2021 -
The avant-garde accessories brand has had a steady list of fashionable collaborations, including with Marine Serre.
— Julie Tong, Vogue, 9 Apr. 2021 -
The former is an Oscar-winning short; the latter is an avant-garde collage-essay film critiquing capitalism, mass marketing and consumer culture.
— John Benson, cleveland, 14 Apr. 2021 -
The familiar robin’s egg blue catalog started featuring her striking sterling silver designs, which seemed very avant-garde, in the mid-1970s.
— Caroline Taylor, Town & Country, 28 Mar. 2021 -
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 -
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 -
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
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