How to Use avant-garde in a Sentence

avant-garde

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• In the ’70s, things were just a little bit more avant-garde.
  — Vulture, 21 June 2023
• Paik was a member of the 1960s avant-garde movement Fluxus.
  — Abigail Lee, BostonGlobe.com, 12 May 2023
• Couture is all about the avant-garde—not a time for playing it safe.
  — Christian Allaire, Vogue, 3 July 2023
• In a world where the avant-garde meets the ethereal, Susan Fang reigns supreme.
  — Angela Lei, Forbes, 19 Feb. 2024
• No, but really the most challenging one was the last one for me, the avant-garde.
  — Rebecca Aizin, Peoplemag, 7 Sep. 2023
• Like most avant-garde scenes, the early East Village drag boom was short-lived.
  — Hugh Ryan, Curbed, 12 Sep. 2023
• Hublot intends the watch to serve as more of an avant-garde art piece than something meant to be worn by the masses.
  — Boone Ashworth, WIRED, 3 Feb. 2024
• The evening included risk-taking and avant-garde looks as well.
  — Christian Allaire, Vogue, 5 Feb. 2024
• The upside was getting to see avant-garde heroine Björk cruise through her soundcheck on the main stage across the grounds.
  — Steve Appleford, SPIN, 20 Apr. 2023
• This avant-garde approach to making it in the art world isn’t without precedent.
  — Kelsey Ables, Washington Post, 11 Apr. 2024
• But what if just the opposite of this heedless obituary for the avant-garde is true?
  — Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 18 Mar. 2024
• The two shared a love for all things avant-garde and Japanese fashion, and when their paths crossed, the rest was history.
  — Kristen Bateman, Vogue, 16 Mar. 2024
• How avant-garde, really, is a group that designs postage stamps?
  — Jackson Arn, The New Yorker, 18 Mar. 2024
• Schulz wrote in Polish, and was celebrated in the 1930s by writers of the Polish avant-garde.
  — Adam Kirsch, The New Republic, 6 Apr. 2023
• Aguilera forwent it, and instead styled the avant-garde bottom with a simple black tee.
  — Christian Allaire, Vogue, 31 July 2023
• The avant-garde design featured a tiered cape that had ruffled feathers cascading down to the floor of the blue carpet.
  — Adrianna Freedman, Good Housekeeping, 31 May 2023
• Christie sauntered down the runway in an avant-garde ensemble — a rubber dress worn over a blue striped corset!
  — Michelle Lee, Peoplemag, 26 Jan. 2024
• The museum’s point is to put in perspective the historic event considered the kick-off of the avant-garde movement.
  — Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes, 28 Mar. 2024
• The punk and the avant-garde artist started playing together as a band called Delia y los Aminoácidos.
  — Beverly Bryan, SPIN, 14 Mar. 2024
• End of carousel Simu Liu Its asymmetrical hem could look avant-garde, but could also look fussy.
  — Rachel Tashjian, Washington Post, 11 Mar. 2024
• At the 11-minute mark, Hancock jumped from avant-garde synth stabs to elegant, note cascading runs on the baby grand.
  — Journal Sentinel, 3 Apr. 2024
• In a behind-the-scenes photo shared to Instagram by Marc Jacobs himself, the piece is revealed to be an avant-garde dress.
  — Michelle Lee, Peoplemag, 9 Aug. 2023
• The middle quartets, created amid the avant-garde furor of the nineteen-twenties, border on raw noise.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2024
• To accomplish that on Wednesday, the pair went with a look by avant-garde experts Viktor & Rolf Couture.
  — Chris Gardner, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 Mar. 2024
• The move over the previous decade from abstraction to figuration among the avant-garde.
  — Eric Gibson, WSJ, 15 Nov. 2023
• The Paris show traces not just Stein’s influence on Picasso, and vice versa, but Stein’s longer-term impact on avant-garde art.
  — Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 10 Jan. 2024
• Classical notes For years, Rachmaninoff was a no-go zone for the classical avant-garde.
  — Carolina A. Miranda, Los Angeles Times, 22 Apr. 2023
• And Felix Art Fair has always had the vibe of being the cool kid of art week — billing itself as a contemporary avant-garde affair.
  — The Editors, Los Angeles Times, 28 Feb. 2024
• Keith Emerson stabbed his Hammond for the freakiest avant-garde dissonance.
  — Ernesto Lechner, SPIN, 11 Apr. 2024
• And the performer certainly didn’t disappoint, performing a lineup packed with her greatest hits—and plenty of avant-garde fashions too.
  — Christian Allaire, Vogue, 15 Apr. 2024

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avant-garde

2 of 2 adjective

• In fact, this perfume is so avant-garde and cool that there aren’t reviews available online.
  — ELLE, 16 Feb. 2023
• And avant-garde publishing, the best like the worst, is almost wholly an affair of backlists.
  — Anne Fadiman, Harper’s Magazine , 16 Feb. 2023
• Every February, the avant-garde of then and now, of here and elsewhere, settle into Chicago for an ecstatic week of sound-making.
  — Chicago Tribune Staff, Chicago Tribune, 17 Feb. 2023
• Musically, New Age exists somewhere between the intellectual avant-garde and wellness hooey—between sound art and the pan-flute pablum that tends to ooze forth from the massage room at the spa.
  — Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 27 Feb. 2023
• The timepieces, however, are a vast departure from those made by its founder and veer more in the direction of an avant-garde high-end streetwear aesthetic versus more traditional Swiss watchmaking codes.
  — Paige Reddinger, Robb Report, 23 Feb. 2023
• The clout-chasing Sackson is an excellent update to the cast, as is the avant-garde chef Lucy (Zoë Chao), who serves as a delicious vehicle for foodie parody, a satirical fount untapped by the original seasons.
  — Inkoo Kang, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2023
• The latter, extracting avant-garde whimsy from believe-it-or-not history, considers the miraculous sky-arcing trip of the most memorable survivor of a real-life 1917 harbor explosion in Halifax, Canada.
  — Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 16 Feb. 2023
• Initially counted among hard bop’s foremost young lions of the early ’60s, Shorter developed a personal style that mated forceful swing with a sometimes angular attack that incorporated tenets of the day’s avant-garde players.
  — Chris Morris, Variety, 2 Mar. 2023
• In fact, this perfume is so avant-garde and cool that there aren’t reviews available online.
  — ELLE, 16 Feb. 2023
• And avant-garde publishing, the best like the worst, is almost wholly an affair of backlists.
  — Anne Fadiman, Harper’s Magazine , 16 Feb. 2023
• Every February, the avant-garde of then and now, of here and elsewhere, settle into Chicago for an ecstatic week of sound-making.
  — Chicago Tribune Staff, Chicago Tribune, 17 Feb. 2023
• Musically, New Age exists somewhere between the intellectual avant-garde and wellness hooey—between sound art and the pan-flute pablum that tends to ooze forth from the massage room at the spa.
  — Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 27 Feb. 2023
• The timepieces, however, are a vast departure from those made by its founder and veer more in the direction of an avant-garde high-end streetwear aesthetic versus more traditional Swiss watchmaking codes.
  — Paige Reddinger, Robb Report, 23 Feb. 2023
• The clout-chasing Sackson is an excellent update to the cast, as is the avant-garde chef Lucy (Zoë Chao), who serves as a delicious vehicle for foodie parody, a satirical fount untapped by the original seasons.
  — Inkoo Kang, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2023
• The latter, extracting avant-garde whimsy from believe-it-or-not history, considers the miraculous sky-arcing trip of the most memorable survivor of a real-life 1917 harbor explosion in Halifax, Canada.
  — Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 16 Feb. 2023
• Initially counted among hard bop’s foremost young lions of the early ’60s, Shorter developed a personal style that mated forceful swing with a sometimes angular attack that incorporated tenets of the day’s avant-garde players.
  — Chris Morris, Variety, 2 Mar. 2023

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024