How to Use bohemia in a Sentence

bohemia

noun
  • Without the bourgeoisie’s staid and starchy mores, there is no bohemia.
    — Deborah Treisman, The New Yorker, 22 Nov. 2021
  • From curtains to wedding decor all the way to plant hangers, macramé adds a touch of bohemia to any design.
    — Lennie Larkin, Sunset, 22 Jan. 2018
  • Susannah was smitten with punk rock and all manners of bohemia.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 25 June 2019
  • Youth, music, heartbreak, 1960s bohemia, all the pieces for a great movie are there.
    — Jamie Lang, Variety, 16 May 2025
  • Libbey’s point of view has since manifested itself throughout the tiny and beloved bohemia.
    — Lauren Johnson and Jesse Sparks, Smithsonian, 3 May 2017
  • Every member of the city’s urban bohemia seemed in attendance.
    — Tara Isabella Burton, WSJ, 20 Apr. 2017
  • While this was not our goal, bohemia offered a situation of protection.
    — Diedrich Diederichsen, Artforum, 1 Dec. 2025
  • Boucheron’s Serpent Bohème bracelet pairs black onyx with twisted gold and diamonds for a polished take on bohemia.
    — Thomas Waller, Footwear News, 24 May 2026
  • Nonetheless sketches invented lives of those seeking a new bohemia or the secret of happiness.
    — Armond White, National Review, 10 May 2024
  • Yet a quiet bohemia remains alive in his work—an insistence that much can exist within a passing, seemingly trivial moment.
    — Kelsey Ables, The Atlantic, 13 June 2026
  • Varda’s feminist vision embraces love, whimsy, joyful bohemia and tenderness no less than healthy anger over injustice.
    — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 May 2022
  • On the south side is a venerable houseboat community with 20 floating homes and berths for more than 30 small boats, a bit of floating bohemia.
    — Carl Nolte, SFChronicle.com, 28 Sep. 2019
  • Daphne du Maurier was born in 1907, in London, into the upper reaches of bohemia.
    — Allan Massie, WSJ, 14 July 2017
  • But there’s a grittier, more punk-leaning strain of bohemia that lives just beneath the surface (fitting, given the subcultural roots from which the aesthetic first emerged).
    — Daisy Maldonado, InStyle, 21 Feb. 2026
  • This is to say nothing of the countless volunteers who showed up, claw hammers in hand, to begin the long resurrection of America’s beloved capital of bohemia.
    — Scott Armstrong, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 Aug. 2017
  • Gibling set the tone for life at 835 Kings Road, fostering a bohemia that rivalled any in Greenwich Village.
    — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 21 July 2022
  • And few designers embody that spirit more vividly than Anna Sui, whose collections return to bohemia’s more eclectic origins.
    — Daisy Maldonado, InStyle, 21 Feb. 2026
  • The Australian queen of coolly-observing-bohemia is one of my favorite 2026 discoveries.
    — Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 2 July 2026
  • The 11-piece collection combines both brand's particular approach to feminine bohemia.
    — Isabel Greenberg, Harper's BAZAAR, 4 Sep. 2018
  • Berlin today is seeing the emergence of something like an international bohemia similar to the one in 1920s Paris.
    — Diedrich Diederichsen, Artforum, 1 Dec. 2025
  • Later, no one in the art community, or in bohemia most broadly conceived, doubted that the AIDS crisis was serious.
    — Diedrich Diederichsen, Artforum, 1 Dec. 2025
  • The fountainhead of American bohemia, Greenwich Village has always departed from the straight and narrow.
    — Michael Kimmelman, New York Times, 21 Nov. 2022
  • Like his artistic predecessor Alice Neel, Ahearn wasn’t comfortable within the precincts of self-conscious downtown bohemia, no matter how rad.
    — Hilton Als, The New Yorker, 26 Dec. 2022
  • Krasner adeptly assembled movers and shakers in the art world — critics, gallerists, collectors, painters, and other denizens of New York bohemia — around their dinner table in the country.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 7 July 2021
  • The bag itself spoke to the moment, with its jaunty insouciance, its effortless blend of elegance and bohemia, its ability to traverse the rapidly disappearing border between uptown and down.
    — Lynn Yaeger, Vogue, 2 Oct. 2021
  • And Ramsay-Levi knows how to get the most out of traditional handwork, like embroidery and punched cotton-front Victorian blouses, without killing the modern bohemia of the clothes.
    — Cathy Horyn, The Cut, 29 Sep. 2017
  • BackBar, which consists primarily of a cluster of picnic tables fenced off from the main drag in the sleepy capital of Hudson Valley bohemia, nails the spirit of tiki instead.
    — Esquire Editors, Esquire, 25 May 2017
  • Set in the 1960s bohemia of Greenwich Village, the play follows a couple struggling to find their authentic selves during a period of radical social change.
    — Antonio Ferme, Variety, 26 Feb. 2023
  • For the next couple of years, TV Party was a Tuesday-night ritual, total immersion in Lower Manhattan bohemia.
    — Fab 5 Freddy, Vanity Fair, 2 Mar. 2026
  • By Malene Birger, whose brand reflects an eclectic vision of Scandinavian minimalism and contemporary bohemia, feels that uncertainty drives consumers to make better wardrobe investments.
    — Cortne Bonilla, Harper's BAZAAR, 9 Aug. 2023

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