How to Use avant-garde in a Sentence

avant-garde

adjective
  • Was this some kind of avant-garde joke?
    — Literary Hub, 13 Feb. 2026
  • The avant-garde lost by winning.
    — Jerry Saltz, Vulture, 20 Apr. 2026
  • Macmillan soon found her niche in the avant-garde.
    — Kaleigh Werner, Footwear News, 31 Oct. 2025
  • The singer paired the stylish, avant-garde boots with a black-and-white look.
    — Karla Rodriguez, Footwear News, 25 Nov. 2025
  • The avant-garde is dead, and it is buried in Père Lachaise.
    — Emily Cox, ARTnews.com, 22 May 2026
  • Anything avant-garde could induce a migraine.
    — Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 12 May 2026
  • There’s a cursed avant-garde horror movie that may be an occult ritual.
    — Neil McRobert, Vulture, 16 Oct. 2025
  • The avant-garde group sought to forge a new visual language of — and for — India.
    — Oscar Holland, CNN Money, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Richard Mille is no stranger to colorful, avant-garde timepieces.
    — Nicole Hoey, Robb Report, 27 May 2026
  • In fact, this perfume is so avant-garde and cool that there aren’t reviews available online.
    — ELLE, 16 Feb. 2023
  • Rather than dreading this disorder, the avant-garde welcomed it.
    — Tim Brinkhof, Big Think, 12 Sep. 2025
  • This avant-garde manicure is next-level with its blend of pink, yellow, blue, and green hues.
    — Daisy Maldonado, InStyle, 15 Mar. 2026
  • But even at its most avant-garde, cinema is still a popular medium.
    — John Bleasdale, Variety, 14 Aug. 2025
  • Dangling tie elements and a skirt slit lent a casual, avant-garde vibe to the look.
    — Jaden Thompson, Footwear News, 29 Sep. 2025
  • The Project Runway star is all about taking the avant-garde spin for her fashion.
    — Daisy Maldonado, InStyle, 2 Apr. 2026
  • These French tips look more avant-garde than a basic set and are seriously just so cool.
    — Daisy Maldonado, InStyle, 9 Feb. 2026
  • Instead, the avant-garde comes from the basement levels of the internet.
    — Kyle Chayka, New Yorker, 20 Aug. 2025
  • Duchamp was the spirit of the avant-garde wheeling through history on a squeaky unicycle.
    — Zachary Fine, New Yorker, 23 Sep. 2025
  • And avant-garde publishing, the best like the worst, is almost wholly an affair of backlists.
    — Anne Fadiman, Harper’s Magazine , 16 Feb. 2023
  • For someone who loves avant-garde design, there could scarcely be a better everyday watch.
    — Oren Hartov, Robb Report, 19 Jan. 2026
  • From excellence and respectability to rage and raunch to the abstract and avant-garde.
    — Lauren Morrow september 9, Literary Hub, 9 Sep. 2025
  • The Skims founder posted photos from the avant-garde shoot on Instagram.
    — Taijuan Moorman, USA Today, 3 Nov. 2025
  • Moore, part of the crew that night, had grown up in the city’s avant-garde scene and wasn’t easily impressed by aspiring artists.
    — Eileen Finan, People.com, 7 Aug. 2025
  • No one is doing modern, high concept, bold, avant-garde fashion quite like Ali Larter.
    — Meg Walters, InStyle, 4 Mar. 2026
  • She was fully enmeshed in the avant-garde scenes in both New York and her native Tokyo.
    — Julie L. Belcove, Architectural Digest, 12 June 2026
  • In fact, on the show, Collins is known to favor the detail as the finishing touch to her avant-garde outfits.
    — Kaleigh Werner, Footwear News, 18 Dec. 2025
  • Like the work of Meredith Monk, these tracks make the avant-garde approachable, almost homey.
    — Reed Jackson, SPIN, 19 Mar. 2026
  • The comedic play focuses on a company of actors cast in an avant-garde performance piece.
    — Greg Evans, Deadline, 23 Dec. 2025
  • In this book, the whole occupation was described as something avant-garde or positive.
    — Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 9 Nov. 2025
  • Tubogas presents a necklace and bracelet that fuse aesthetic avant-garde and jewelry design.
    — Fairchild Studio, Footwear News, 20 Apr. 2026

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