How to Use avant in a Sentence

avant

adjective

• Ferlinghetti was clear-eyed about the fate of most avant-garde work.
  — Emma Brown, Anchorage Daily News, 23 Feb. 2021
• The spouses circle each other stiffly at home, like actors in an avant-garde play.
  — Naomi Fry, The New Yorker, 1 Mar. 2021
• Tributes to the musician exalted her power as an avant-garde artist, who broke the rules and paved the way for many to come.
  — Tribune News Service, oregonlive, 31 Jan. 2021
• Similarly, Diller is surprised whenever their avant-garde firm is picked for jobs.
  — Jerry Portwood, Rolling Stone, 26 Feb. 2021
• All aesthetics — conventional and avant-garde — have sloshed together.
  — Helen Shaw, Vulture, 14 Jan. 2021
• While his celebrity image revolved around avant-garde fashion, a fair part of each collection consisted of more traditional styles.
  — Mary Rourke, Los Angeles Times, 29 Dec. 2020
• Among American avant-garde painters, Guston was the most scrupulous about questioning the premises of abstraction.
  — Washington Post, 14 Jan. 2021
• Among the surprising flavor combinations on his more avant-garde pies: eggplants and mint burrata; broad beans and asparagus; and lemon, licorice and zucchini pesto.
  — Francesco Lastrucci, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Feb. 2021
• The first three eps of this season have not just shown us dazzling production numbers, avant-garde fashion shows, and experimental psychological torture techniques.
  — Paul McCallion, Vulture, 15 Jan. 2021
• 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
• 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
• Bloom, 44, sported an avant-garde black harness over a crisp white shirt with black pants.
  — Nicholas Rice, PEOPLE.com, 6 July 2021
• Her tracks were avant-garde, arty stuff that really rocked out!
  — A.d. Amorosi, Variety, 18 Feb. 2022
• The staff’s uniforms were designed by Bourie, an avant-garde fashion brand based in Seoul.
  — Alyson Sheppard, Robb Report, 18 Nov. 2021
• But Van Gogh and his fellow avant-garde painters were mostly hostile to the medium.
  — Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 2 Oct. 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: 20 Nov 2024