How to Use vanguard in a Sentence

vanguard

noun

• The granddaddy of them all, this is the vanguard of the style.
  — Marc Bona, cleveland, 9 Dec. 2021
• The last male artist to win the video vanguard award was Kanye West in 2015.
  — Paul Grein, Billboard, 3 Sep. 2019
• Last year, there were more than 1,600 marchers in the vanguard.
  — Madalyn Mendoza, San Antonio Express-News, 30 Jan. 2018
• If Priest is the vanguard of cool, this is not cool at all.
  — Katie Walsh, Detroit Free Press, 13 June 2018
• But there seems to be little doubt that Mr. Kim was in the vanguard.
  — New York Times, 22 Apr. 2021
• In a lot of ways, Ghetto Gastro is in the vanguard of this shift.
  — Jason Parham, WIRED, 29 May 2018
• The Landmark Mall was once at the vanguard of shopping.
  — Michael Corkery, New York Times, 13 June 2018
• Texas and a handful of other states have been at the vanguard of that push.
  — Tory Newmyer, Washington Post, 17 Oct. 2022
• Khan is at the vanguard of the Big Tech antitrust movement.
  — Gilad Edelman, Wired, 9 Mar. 2021
• The residents of Munger Hall are the vanguard for Wellesley at the Marathon.
  — Dugan Arnett, Jerome Campbell, Eric Moskowitz, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Apr. 2018
• What is the role of skin tone among the vanguard, knowing that so many at the forefront were lighter-skinned?
  — Bethanne Patrick, Los Angeles Times, 7 Apr. 2021
• And a vanguard of tech titans—not to mention a bevy of hot startups—are on the hunt for it.
  — Fortune, 19 Mar. 2018
• Yet the big studios aren’t always in the vanguard of such reappraisals.
  — David Mermelstein, WSJ, 7 Dec. 2021
• These officers are at the vanguard of the city's efforts to kick the strip clubs out of downtown.
  — Anjeanette Damon, USA Today, 29 Oct. 2019
• But the series itself isn’t at the vanguard of anything.
  — Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Apr. 2022
• Travis Shaw has never been in the vanguard among players in his age group.
  — Michael Beller, SI.com, 1 Mar. 2018
• And for Earl, who was pushing 50, Carroll was a perfect conduit to the kids on the vanguard.
  — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 19 July 2022
• And Texas was just on the vanguard of the new body of voter suppression tactics.
  — David Daley, The New Republic, 15 Oct. 2020
• But that’s a pretty old-school view of a town that’s become a dining vanguard over the last few decades.
  — Mark Kurlyandchik, Detroit Free Press, 18 June 2017
• Texas and Florida were on the vanguard of that backlash.
  — New York Times, 31 Jan. 2022
• Once, Redhook was the king of beer in Seattle, a vanguard in the country’s craft-beer movement.
  — Tan Vinh, The Seattle Times, 6 Sep. 2017
• At the vanguard of this fight are our health care workers, 70 percent of whom are women.
  — Caroline Hallemann, Town & Country, 13 July 2020
• But the listing for the Alienware Alpha, once the Steam Machine vanguard, stings.
  — Brad Chacos, PCWorld, 2 Apr. 2018
• That’s in a country that hasn’t seen a recession since the 1990s and is in the vanguard of nations containing the virus.
  — Emily Cadman, Fortune, 6 July 2020
• The Chicago market is at the vanguard of Target's line of attack.
  — Robert Reed, chicagotribune.com, 6 June 2017
• In 2009, Poland and France proposed creating a vanguard group of countries willing to act when the rest of the EU would not.
  — Radek Sikorski, Foreign Affairs, 20 June 2023
• The message was clear: Moneyball was the vanguard, the future.
  — Will Leitch, Daily Intelligencer, 21 Mar. 2018
• The Light Phone: while not a flip phone, this could be considered the vanguard of new kind of ultra-basic phone.
  — Brooke Crothers, Fox News, 20 Apr. 2018
• There are no searing indictments of political injustice this time from the erstwhile leftist-rock vanguard of the aughts.
  — Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 3 Dec. 2024
• Abe’s focused approach to pleats and her hybridized design techniques have continued to evolve, maintaining Sacai’s position at the forefront of Japan’s fashion vanguard.
  — Thomas Adamson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 22 Feb 2025