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
• 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
• Texas and Florida were on the vanguard of that backlash.
  — New York Times, 31 Jan. 2022
• 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
• 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
• No one said that being in the housing reform vanguard would be easy.
  — Los Angeles Times, 21 Oct. 2019
• Now, the 17-year-old high school junior is at the vanguard of a student movement rocking the nation.
  — Christal Hayes, USA TODAY, 14 Mar. 2018
• Once on the fringes of Israeli politics, the settler movement now makes up the vanguard of the Israeli right.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 21 May 2021
• But the category could do a lot worse than the Lenovo Fold X1 as its vanguard.
  — Pete Pachal, Time, 9 Jan. 2020
• And that was with the financial muscle of the teachers union, which has for more than a decade positioned itself as the progressive vanguard in the city.
  — Alice Yin, Chicago Tribune, 21 Oct. 2024
• Since Trump fought the 2020 results in Georgia, the state has turned into a kind of vanguard for the national movement to contest elections.
  — Jonathan Blitzer, The New Yorker, 2 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 17 Jan 2025