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
• Texas and a handful of other states have been at the vanguard of that push.
  — Tory Newmyer, Washington Post, 17 Oct. 2022
• Yet the big studios aren’t always in the vanguard of such reappraisals.
  — David Mermelstein, WSJ, 7 Dec. 2021
• 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
• Texas and Florida were on the vanguard of that backlash.
  — New York Times, 31 Jan. 2022
• 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
• And flight attendants have been at the vanguard of the labor movement ever since.
  — Nell McShane Wulfhart, Time, 21 Apr. 2022
• 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
• DJ Rekha, who was at the vanguard of bhangra beats in American clubs, created the festive playlist.
  — Andy Wang, Robb Report, 15 Sep. 2021
• One of the first Utah pioneers to leave for life elsewhere was a member of Brigham Young’s 1847 vanguard company.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 29 July 2023
• Now, artists like Fireboy are carrying the torch as part of the newest vanguard, and making sure Afrobeats spreads like wildfire.
  — Heran Mamo, Billboard, 18 Mar. 2022
• Their public debut will be on April 23, as a vanguard for the big opening later this summer.
  — Sam Whiting, San Francisco Chronicle, 30 Mar. 2022
• Comedies and romances were the vanguard of clean-streets cinema.
  — Matt Zoller Seitz, Vulture, 8 Dec. 2021
• The beacon-like structures, and the watchers who staff them, were once at the vanguard of fire detection across the West's abundant forestlands and high mountains.
  — Gregory Thomas, San Francisco Chronicle, 24 Sep. 2022
• Despite threats and harassment, Arteaga was at the vanguard.
  — Jessica Hoppe, refinery29.com, 31 May 2022
• Ten years ago, Netflix was in the vanguard; today, the challenge is not to grow, but to make its existing service still seem valuable.
  — David Sims, The Atlantic, 26 Apr. 2022
• Some, hoping to end up on the right side of history, will defer to this moral vanguard, acting as the amplifiers and enforcers of its will.
  — Damon Linker, The Week, 26 Oct. 2021
• These days some people might praise Jerry as being in the vanguard of the struggle for a reasonable work-life balance.
  — Larry Edelman, BostonGlobe.com, 31 Aug. 2022
• That is especially true in Arizona, a vanguard of school choice.
  — Sarah Mervosh, New York Times, 24 July 2023
• Her forthcoming book Young and Restless—about the girls on the vanguard of America’s protest movements—will be published in June 2023.
  — Mattie Kahn, Glamour, 25 Oct. 2022
• Still, signs of recovery already dot a city where the first vanguard of Ukrainian troops entered only last week.
  — Los Angeles Times, 18 Nov. 2022
• On their historic arrival, Flake, Wales and Smith scouted the area, tilled the ground, planted crops and laid down a trail for their enslavers and vanguard wagons that soon would follow.
  — Peggy Fletcher Stack, The Salt Lake Tribune, 22 July 2022
• Lithuania has actually been at the vanguard of opposition to the war in Ukraine.
  — Andy Meek, BGR, 13 July 2022
• Since its launch in 2009, Forbes India has been at the vanguard of entrepreneurship and innovation.
  — Forbes Press Releases, Forbes, 7 Oct. 2021
• So what could a more genuinely progressive vanguard look like now?
  — Curbed, 14 Apr. 2022
• Baldwin follows other dance critics in affirming Graham’s place at the vanguard of a new kind of dance.
  — Charlie Tyson, The Atlantic, 18 Oct. 2022
• The origins of the Dallas Art Fair and Dallas’s art world lie in a vanguard white collector base that eschews the spotlight in favor of building a unique local scene.
  — Abigail Ronner, Harper's BAZAAR, 11 May 2023
• And just as Willie was synonymous with the first decades of country music, Musgraves has become the vanguard of a new kind of country that has brought a modern sound to a classic genre.
  — Ted Brown, Rolling Stone, 19 Nov. 2021

Last Updated: 3 May 2024