How to Use bohemia in a Sentence

bohemia

noun
  • Without the bourgeoisie’s staid and starchy mores, there is no bohemia.
    Deborah Treisman, The New Yorker, 22 Nov. 2021
  • From curtains to wedding decor all the way to plant hangers, macramé adds a touch of bohemia to any design.
    Lennie Larkin, Sunset, 22 Jan. 2018
  • Susannah was smitten with punk rock and all manners of bohemia.
    Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 25 June 2019
  • Youth, music, heartbreak, 1960s bohemia, all the pieces for a great movie are there.
    Jamie Lang, Variety, 16 May 2025
  • Libbey’s point of view has since manifested itself throughout the tiny and beloved bohemia.
    Lauren Johnson and Jesse Sparks, Smithsonian, 3 May 2017
  • Every member of the city’s urban bohemia seemed in attendance.
    Tara Isabella Burton, WSJ, 20 Apr. 2017
  • While this was not our goal, bohemia offered a situation of protection.
    Diedrich Diederichsen, Artforum, 1 Dec. 2025
  • Yet, like earlier bohemias its members are driven by values outside of commerce.
    Michael Bernick, Forbes.com, 22 July 2026
  • Boucheron’s Serpent Bohème bracelet pairs black onyx with twisted gold and diamonds for a polished take on bohemia.
    Thomas Waller, Footwear News, 24 May 2026
  • Nonetheless sketches invented lives of those seeking a new bohemia or the secret of happiness.
    Armond White, National Review, 10 May 2024
  • But the arts bohemia has been in decline for decades, and today serves mainly as a vehicle for its insular ideologies and agitprop.
    Michael Bernick, Forbes.com, 22 July 2026
  • Yet a quiet bohemia remains alive in his work—an insistence that much can exist within a passing, seemingly trivial moment.
    Kelsey Ables, The Atlantic, 13 June 2026
  • Even in the crunchy bohemia of the Whiteaker, where eccentricity reigned, Ferguson stood out.
    Literary Hub, 10 July 2026
  • However, there were the other denizens of bohemia who, like Harrington, sought to create goods of value beyond their market measure.
    Michael Bernick, Forbes.com, 22 July 2026
  • Varda’s feminist vision embraces love, whimsy, joyful bohemia and tenderness no less than healthy anger over injustice.
    Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 May 2022
  • On the south side is a venerable houseboat community with 20 floating homes and berths for more than 30 small boats, a bit of floating bohemia.
    Carl Nolte, SFChronicle.com, 28 Sep. 2019
  • Daphne du Maurier was born in 1907, in London, into the upper reaches of bohemia.
    Allan Massie, WSJ, 14 July 2017
  • But there’s a grittier, more punk-leaning strain of bohemia that lives just beneath the surface (fitting, given the subcultural roots from which the aesthetic first emerged).
    Daisy Maldonado, InStyle, 21 Feb. 2026
  • In place of San Francisco’s decaying arts bohemia of poseurs and charlatans, they can be said to be creating an alternate bohemia.
    Michael Bernick, Forbes.com, 22 July 2026
  • This is to say nothing of the countless volunteers who showed up, claw hammers in hand, to begin the long resurrection of America’s beloved capital of bohemia.
    Scott Armstrong, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 Aug. 2017
  • Gibling set the tone for life at 835 Kings Road, fostering a bohemia that rivalled any in Greenwich Village.
    Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 21 July 2022
  • And few designers embody that spirit more vividly than Anna Sui, whose collections return to bohemia’s more eclectic origins.
    Daisy Maldonado, InStyle, 21 Feb. 2026
  • The Australian queen of coolly-observing-bohemia is one of my favorite 2026 discoveries.
    Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 2 July 2026
  • When shopping the trend, seek out Dôen for broderie anglaise, Free People for modern bohemia, and If Only If for loose, babydoll fits.
    Joy Montgomery, Vogue, 23 July 2026
  • The 11-piece collection combines both brand's particular approach to feminine bohemia.
    Isabel Greenberg, Harper's BAZAAR, 4 Sep. 2018
  • Berlin today is seeing the emergence of something like an international bohemia similar to the one in 1920s Paris.
    Diedrich Diederichsen, Artforum, 1 Dec. 2025
  • Later, no one in the art community, or in bohemia most broadly conceived, doubted that the AIDS crisis was serious.
    Diedrich Diederichsen, Artforum, 1 Dec. 2025
  • The fountainhead of American bohemia, Greenwich Village has always departed from the straight and narrow.
    Michael Kimmelman, New York Times, 21 Nov. 2022
  • Like his artistic predecessor Alice Neel, Ahearn wasn’t comfortable within the precincts of self-conscious downtown bohemia, no matter how rad.
    Hilton Als, The New Yorker, 26 Dec. 2022
  • Bohemias that grew in major cities in America often represented a type of voluntary poverty, and rejection of capitalism.
    Michael Bernick, Forbes.com, 22 July 2026

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