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.
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In fact, this perfume is so avant-garde and cool that there aren’t reviews available online.
—ELLE, 16 Feb. 2023
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And avant-garde publishing, the best like the worst, is almost wholly an affair of backlists.
—Anne Fadiman, Harper’s Magazine , 16 Feb. 2023
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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
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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
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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
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The clout-chasing Sackson is an excellent update to the cast, as is the avant-garde chef Lucy (Zoë Chao), who serves as a delicious vehicle for foodie parody, a satirical fount untapped by the original seasons.
—Inkoo Kang, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2023
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Native plants, long dismissed as wild or ordinary, became the basis for a new, modern, avant-garde language.
—Spencer Elliott, Forbes.com, 23 June 2026
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She was fully enmeshed in the avant-garde scenes in both New York and her native Tokyo.
—Julie L. Belcove, Architectural Digest, 12 June 2026
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