How to Use avant in a Sentence

avant

adjective

• The result is a sound at once medieval and avant-garde.
  — Brian Dillon, The New Yorker, 8 Apr. 2022
• Leave it up to the 42-year-old to pull off the bangs of our dreams and an eye-catching avant-garde dress.
  — Chaise Sanders, Country Living, 15 Jan. 2023
• But the images in the park were much more avant-garde than the Disney cartoons.
  — Perri Klass, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 May 2022
• Along the way, she's come into her own as a lover of bold, avant-garde fashion.
  — Catherine Santino, Peoplemag, 12 Sep. 2022
• His avant-garde Bazaar by José Andrés bows late this year.
  — Kathryn Romeyn, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Aug. 2022
• Others likened the avant garde shape of Kendall's look to a scrunchie, a car airbag, a marshmallow, or a comforter.
  — Hannah Oh, Seventeen, 27 June 2023
• Short films promote the poll’s avant-garde elitism: Meshes of the Afternoon, La Jetée.
  — Armond White, National Review, 7 Dec. 2022
• But in the art world, she is known as a pioneer of avant-garde performance art.
  — Washington Post, 16 Mar. 2022
• But Lennon’s celebrity meant that Ono could no longer come and go quietly on the avant-garde stage.
  — The New Yorker, 25 July 2022
• In 1983, it was seen as avant-garde enough for the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
  — Los Angeles Times, 19 Mar. 2022
• And Fendi’s spring 2023 show modernized the mess by adding an avant-garde swipe of silver along the lash line.
  — Paige Stables, Allure, 19 Dec. 2022
• But Van Gogh and his fellow avant-garde painters were mostly hostile to the medium.
  — Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 2 Oct. 2022
• Those items are inspired by avant-garde art, Downing said.
  — Dewayne Bevil, Orlando Sentinel, 13 Jan. 2023
• The 20 to 25 looks are a blend of Jason’s friend John Byrd-Olivieri’s classic aesthetic and his own more avant-garde feel.
  — Rodney Ho, ajc, 4 Apr. 2022
• As a result, Subarus were just a bit too avant-garde to cut it in suburbia.
  — Car and Driver, 28 Sep. 2022
• Take this avant-garde creation, the latest to join the Project Z collection—only 300 of them were made.
  — Leena Kim, Town & Country, 9 Dec. 2022
• It’s not something one watches sober, but rather projected on the wall of an avant-garde gay bar.
  — Peter Debruge, Variety, 3 June 2022
• Amanda Kim's film traces how Paik came from avant-garde roots to evolve an art of liquid beauty.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 26 Jan. 2023
• See, the singular and avant-garde can be sustainable!).
  — Blythe Marks, Harper's BAZAAR, 10 Aug. 2022
• Nathy Peluso is a force to be reckoned with, and constantly keeps us on the edge of our seats with her avant-garde music.
  — Billboard Staff, Billboard, 18 Feb. 2022
• According to the Court Jeweller, this avant-garde tiara was made for her in 1976 by Arje Griesgst.
  — Emily Burack, Town & Country, 6 Aug. 2022
• What resulted from this artist-first mission was some of the most notable avant-garde art of the 20th century.
  — Nina Raemont, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Oct. 2022
• Some of the most airplay-friendly music Lamar has ever recorded is packed in with some of the most avant-garde work of his career.
  — Sheldon Pearce, The New Yorker, 16 May 2022
• Perhaps Ringu, where watching an avant-garde videotape provokes a ghost to crawl out the TV (in seven days, again).
  — Will Bedingfield, WIRED, 22 Dec. 2022
• Richard Mille has built a reputation for its avant-garde designs since the brand’s founding in 2001.
  — Cait Bazemore, Robb Report, 21 Oct. 2022
• But not until the hook hits does the song really kick into high gear, and become an avant-garde dance-pop treatise for the ages.
  — Andrew R. Chow, Time, 22 Nov. 2022
• Maison Margiela and Jean Paul Gaultier, meanwhile, have corned the market in avant-garde couture bridal looks.
  — Vogue, 30 Jan. 2023
• Among a circle of younger avant-garde artists, Stettheimer assumed the role of a benevolent if caustic aunt.
  — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2022
• De Erdely is a curious footnote in the avant-garde story of postwar L.A. art.
  — Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 6 Sep. 2022
• The shows ranged from lavish musicals to more avant-garde offerings.
  — Variety, NBC News, 13 June 2022

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