How to Use avant-garde in a Sentence

avant-garde

adjective

• A very avant-garde artist whose works wouldn't even be considered art by many traditionalists.
• In fact, this perfume is so avant-garde and cool that there aren’t reviews available online.
  — ELLE, 16 Feb. 2023
• And avant-garde publishing, the best like the worst, is almost wholly an affair of backlists.
  — Anne Fadiman, Harper’s Magazine , 16 Feb. 2023
• Every February, the avant-garde of then and now, of here and elsewhere, settle into Chicago for an ecstatic week of sound-making.
  — Chicago Tribune Staff, Chicago Tribune, 17 Feb. 2023
• Musically, New Age exists somewhere between the intellectual avant-garde and wellness hooey—between sound art and the pan-flute pablum that tends to ooze forth from the massage room at the spa.
  — Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 27 Feb. 2023
• The timepieces, however, are a vast departure from those made by its founder and veer more in the direction of an avant-garde high-end streetwear aesthetic versus more traditional Swiss watchmaking codes.
  — Paige Reddinger, Robb Report, 23 Feb. 2023
• Shopping editor Audrey Lee was drawn to the avant-garde shape of these angular mugs.
  — Kate McGregor, Architectural Digest, 6 Mar. 2026
• One pair even features a pair of fully-beaded butterfly wings—a more avant-garde take on traditional mocs.
  — Christian Allaire, Vogue, 5 Mar. 2026
• No one is doing modern, high concept, bold, avant-garde fashion quite like Ali Larter.
  — Meg Walters, InStyle, 4 Mar. 2026