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
  • Texas and a handful of other states have been at the vanguard of that push.
    — Tory Newmyer, Washington Post, 17 Oct. 2022
  • As the old vanguard of civil rights leaders pass, who will fill the void?
    — Brittany Luse, NPR, 6 Mar. 2026
  • Last year, there were more than 1,600 marchers in the vanguard.
    — Madalyn Mendoza, San Antonio Express-News, 30 Jan. 2018
  • No one said that being in the housing reform vanguard would be easy.
    — Los Angeles Times, 21 Oct. 2019
  • Travis Shaw has never been in the vanguard among players in his age group.
    — Michael Beller, SI.com, 1 Mar. 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
  • Yet the big studios aren’t always in the vanguard of such reappraisals.
    — David Mermelstein, WSJ, 7 Dec. 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
  • 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
  • In a lot of ways, Ghetto Gastro is in the vanguard of this shift.
    — Jason Parham, WIRED, 29 May 2018
  • 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
  • At the vanguard of this fight are our health care workers, 70 percent of whom are women.
    — Caroline Hallemann, Town & Country, 13 July 2020
  • The last male artist to win the video vanguard award was Kanye West in 2015.
    — Paul Grein, Billboard, 3 Sep. 2019
  • And Texas was just on the vanguard of the new body of voter suppression tactics.
    — David Daley, The New Republic, 15 Oct. 2020
  • And flight attendants have been at the vanguard of the labor movement ever since.
    — Nell McShane Wulfhart, Time, 21 Apr. 2022
  • South Korea has long been at the vanguard of concern about addiction to video games.
    — Victoria Kim, Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2019
  • That may have been a heavy expectation, but she’s clearly evolved into one of its vanguards.
    — Josh Crutchmer, Rolling Stone, 21 Dec. 2025
  • Already the vanguard is here, and the officers have laid out their camps and made everything ready for their forces.
    — Evening Tribune, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 June 2019
  • Linklater was a vanguard of the indie film movement of the 1990s.
    — Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 18 June 2026
  • Yes, Barcelona comes across normally as a cool place, a vanguard city which everybody wants to visit.
    — John Hopewell, Variety, 25 Apr. 2026
  • The Chicago market is at the vanguard of Target's line of attack.
    — Robert Reed, chicagotribune.com, 6 June 2017
  • 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, 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
  • The San Francisco 49ers, vanguards of the outside zone run game, cannot run the ball.
    — Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 15 Oct. 2025
  • Teyana Taylor is taking her fashion vanguard reputation to new heights in the desert.
    — Lara Walsh, InStyle, 12 Apr. 2026
  • The residents of Munger Hall are the vanguard for Wellesley at the Marathon.
    — Dugan Arnett, Jerome Campbell, Eric Moskowitz, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Apr. 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
  • But the category could do a lot worse than the Lenovo Fold X1 as its vanguard.
    — Pete Pachal, Time, 9 Jan. 2020
  • The woman at the vanguard of this effort is 38-year-old Niakan, petite and dark-haired, with a birdlike face.
    — Madhumita Murgia, Newsweek, 28 Dec. 2016

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