How to Use avant in a Sentence

avant

adjective
  • Her postmortem voice-over is more than an avant-garde gimmick.
    — Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 Dec. 2020
  • Her tracks were avant-garde, arty stuff that really rocked out!
    — A.d. Amorosi, Variety, 18 Feb. 2022
  • The avant-garde beauty looks were just the tip of the iceberg, too.
    — Katie Campione, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Aug. 2020
  • Ferlinghetti was clear-eyed about the fate of most avant-garde work.
    — Emma Brown, Anchorage Daily News, 23 Feb. 2021
  • Above, watch the avant-garde couple show off a few of their favorite things.
    — Elise Taylor, Vogue, 30 Sep. 2021
  • Its creation tells the fate of an avant-garde woman who was ahead of her time.
    — Allyson Portee, Forbes, 16 Apr. 2021
  • Along the way, she's come into her own as a lover of bold, avant-garde fashion.
    — Catherine Santino, Peoplemag, 12 Sep. 2022
  • The show will be capped off by avant garde performer Joseph Lamar.
    — Dylan Owens, The Know, 13 Apr. 2017
  • To most observers, the piece looks like an avant-garde headpiece or necklace.
    — Eliza Huber, refinery29.com, 27 July 2021
  • Whatever else was true, the garde was no longer avant, and prices were rising fast.
    — Stephen Metcalf, The Atlantic, 24 June 2018
  • Their quest to be at the sword’s tip of the avant-garde inspired and exhausted them both.
    — John Timpane, Philly.com, 21 Mar. 2018
  • These are intractable, meaty problems, the kinds avant-garde artists used to want to explore.
    — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 2 Sep. 2021
  • Bloom, 44, sported an avant-garde black harness over a crisp white shirt with black pants.
    — Nicholas Rice, PEOPLE.com, 6 July 2021
  • But in the art world, she is known as a pioneer of avant-garde performance art.
    — Washington Post, 16 Mar. 2022
  • But the images in the park were much more avant-garde than the Disney cartoons.
    — Perri Klass, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 May 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
  • This slowcore band called Duster, shoegaze rock, this avant-garde pop band called Broadcast.
    — Neena Rouhani, Billboard, 21 Jan. 2022
  • As a result, Subarus were just a bit too avant-garde to cut it in suburbia.
    — Car and Driver, 28 Sep. 2022
  • Tyner’s great achievement was the creation of a sound rooted in the blues but suited to the avant-garde.
    — David A. Graham, The Atlantic, 10 Mar. 2020
  • This brought to life a minimal and avant-garde shape comprised of sleek lines, that is spacious enough to wear day-to-night.
    — Angela Lei, Forbes, 15 Oct. 2021
  • But she's never been one of the super-on-theme or avant garde Best Dressed…until now.
    — Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 7 May 2024
  • The staff’s uniforms were designed by Bourie, an avant-garde fashion brand based in Seoul.
    — Alyson Sheppard, Robb Report, 18 Nov. 2021
  • Amanda Kim's film traces how Paik came from avant-garde roots to evolve an art of liquid beauty.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 26 Jan. 2023
  • 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
  • But Van Gogh and his fellow avant-garde painters were mostly hostile to the medium.
    — Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 2 Oct. 2022
  • 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
  • Johnston Marklee’s design pays homage to those avant-garde showrooms of the Mad Men era.
    — Lily Dierkes, Town & Country, 21 Feb. 2018
  • Makeup artist Isamaya Ffrench took her hair to new heights with an avant-garde wig by Tomi Kono.
    — Vogue, 5 May 2019
  • Showrunners Robert and Michelle King are network mainstreamers with a taste for the avant-garde.
    — Darren Franich, EW.com, 9 Apr. 2020
  • The other was Sun Ra, the avant-garde pianist and bandleader who died in 1993.
    — Richard Sandomir, New York Times, 9 Aug. 2020

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