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
• The last male artist to win the video vanguard award was Kanye West in 2015.
  — Paul Grein, Billboard, 3 Sep. 2019
• If Priest is the vanguard of cool, this is not cool at all.
  — Katie Walsh, Detroit Free Press, 13 June 2018
• But there seems to be little doubt that Mr. Kim was in the vanguard.
  — New York Times, 22 Apr. 2021
• The Landmark Mall was once at the vanguard of shopping.
  — Michael Corkery, New York Times, 13 June 2018
• Texas and a handful of other states have been at the vanguard of that push.
  — Tory Newmyer, Washington Post, 17 Oct. 2022
• Khan is at the vanguard of the Big Tech antitrust movement.
  — Gilad Edelman, Wired, 9 Mar. 2021
• 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
• 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
• But the series itself isn’t at the vanguard of anything.
  — Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Apr. 2022
• 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
• And Texas was just on the vanguard of the new body of voter suppression tactics.
  — David Daley, The New Republic, 15 Oct. 2020
• Texas and Florida were on the vanguard of that backlash.
  — New York Times, 31 Jan. 2022
• At the vanguard of this fight are our health care workers, 70 percent of whom are women.
  — Caroline Hallemann, Town & Country, 13 July 2020
• That’s in a country that hasn’t seen a recession since the 1990s and is in the vanguard of nations containing the virus.
  — Emily Cadman, Fortune, 6 July 2020
• In 2009, Poland and France proposed creating a vanguard group of countries willing to act when the rest of the EU would not.
  — Radek Sikorski, Foreign Affairs, 20 June 2023
• No one said that being in the housing reform vanguard would be easy.
  — Los Angeles Times, 21 Oct. 2019
• Once on the fringes of Israeli politics, the settler movement now makes up the vanguard of the Israeli right.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 21 May 2021
• But the category could do a lot worse than the Lenovo Fold X1 as its vanguard.
  — Pete Pachal, Time, 9 Jan. 2020
• Few people, at least in the United States, thought as much (the vanguard of critics who forged the idea of cinema as art was in France).
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 7 Nov. 2019
• South Korea has long been at the vanguard of concern about addiction to video games.
  — Victoria Kim, Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2019
• Black women like Stacey Abrams and Shirley Chisholm who served as the vanguard of democracy are starting to get their due.
  — Judy Tzu-Chun Wu, The Conversation, 18 Nov. 2020
• 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
• And flight attendants have been at the vanguard of the labor movement ever since.
  — Nell McShane Wulfhart, Time, 21 Apr. 2022
• Being in the vanguard also means being out front: leading and showing the way.
  — Karin Wulf, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Sep. 2020
• Kadyrov has been a vocal supporter of the war against Ukraine, with Chechen forces forming part of the vanguard of the Russian army in the region.
  — Landon Mion, Fox News, 2 Oct. 2022
• Rather, Jared Isaacman is a tech billionaire who dropped out of high school to start his company and is now in the vanguard of the new Space Age.
  — Christian Davenport, Washington Post, 2 Oct. 2022
• The early indie vanguard inherited the rock mags’ disinterest in R&B. Some of the snark for big fish was laser-guided, and some of it looked like people who needed to get out more.
  — Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 22 Jan. 2024
• As a liminal art form, yard art touches the edges of public and vanguard art while residing within neither category.
  — Mary Thomas, ARTnews.com, 3 Sep. 2019

Last Updated: 18 Dec 2024