How to Use avant-garde in a Sentence

avant-garde

adjective

• A very avant-garde artist whose works wouldn't even be considered art by many traditionalists.
• 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

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