How to Use avant in a Sentence

avant

adjective

• 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
• Showrunners Robert and Michelle King are network mainstreamers with a taste for the avant-garde.
  — Darren Franich, EW.com, 9 Apr. 2020
• Du Yun, who arrived in the U.S. from China and has quickly moved up the avant-garde ranks.
  — Los Angeles Times, 1 Mar. 2020
• The Esprit's shape, arguably more avant-garde despite its age, consistently pegs the gawk meter.
  — John Phillips, Car and Driver, 18 June 2020
• The device comes across as an unnecessary crutch to establish avant-garde credentials.
  — Los Angeles Times, 16 Apr. 2020
• There was a big influence from Daphne Guinness — a strong female character who had a really bold sense of fashion that was avant-garde.
  — Kathleen Newman-Bremang, refinery29.com, 8 Apr. 2020
• The methods of its creator, Robert Lepage, an avant-garde Canadian playwright and impresario, may have been partly to blame.
  — F.r., The Economist, 16 Mar. 2020
• Based on the avant-garde comedy Honig, Jouhari and Stonoha have been performing for years, the show is delightfully absurdist.
  — Judy Berman, Time, 25 Mar. 2020
• An artistic underdog creeping their way through the scene, OnlyOneOf is certainly one to watch if just for their avant-garde approach to the industry.
  — Jeff Benjamin, Billboard, 31 Jan. 2020
• Known for her avant-garde approach to materials, Oxman has filled her show with artifacts from her career, such as fabrics made from cellulose, chitosan, and pectin, plusand a silkworm silk tent.
  — Clay Chandler, Fortune, 25 Feb. 2020
• The avant-garde beauty looks were just the tip of the iceberg, too.
  — Katie Campione, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Aug. 2020
• The result is a sound at once medieval and avant-garde.
  — Brian Dillon, The New Yorker, 8 Apr. 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
• But the images in the park were much more avant-garde than the Disney cartoons.
  — Perri Klass, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 May 2022
• Along the way, she's come into her own as a lover of bold, avant-garde fashion.
  — Catherine Santino, Peoplemag, 12 Sep. 2022
• Above, watch the avant-garde couple show off a few of their favorite things.
  — Elise Taylor, Vogue, 30 Sep. 2021
• Ferlinghetti was clear-eyed about the fate of most avant-garde work.
  — Emma Brown, Anchorage Daily News, 23 Feb. 2021
• The other was Sun Ra, the avant-garde pianist and bandleader who died in 1993.
  — Richard Sandomir, New York Times, 9 Aug. 2020
• Its creation tells the fate of an avant-garde woman who was ahead of her time.
  — Allyson Portee, Forbes, 16 Apr. 2021
• His avant-garde Bazaar by José Andrés bows late this year.
  — Kathryn Romeyn, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Aug. 2022
• These are intractable, meaty problems, the kinds avant-garde artists used to want to explore.
  — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 2 Sep. 2021
• 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
• To most observers, the piece looks like an avant-garde headpiece or necklace.
  — Eliza Huber, refinery29.com, 27 July 2021
• Short films promote the poll’s avant-garde elitism: Meshes of the Afternoon, La Jetée.
  — Armond White, National Review, 7 Dec. 2022
• But in the art world, she is known as a pioneer of avant-garde performance art.
  — Washington Post, 16 Mar. 2022
• 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
• In 1983, it was seen as avant-garde enough for the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
  — Los Angeles Times, 19 Mar. 2022
• And Fendi’s spring 2023 show modernized the mess by adding an avant-garde swipe of silver along the lash line.
  — Paige Stables, Allure, 19 Dec. 2022
• Fox, who recently released her new memoir Down the Drain, has an affinity for all that is avant garde fashion.
  — Charna Flam, Peoplemag, 26 Oct. 2023
• Flood refers to Bowie’s ability to create arty records that bring the avant garde into the everyday, with hits that anyone could hum along to, reflecting Reznor’s own pop nous.
  — Adam Steiner, SPIN, 8 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 26 Dec 2024