In a sentence
Six example sentences with shortlist, each labelled with its topic.
Four hundred applications became a shortlist of six, and the panel interviewed all of them in a single day.
Business
The prize shortlist named two painters, a weaver, and a sculptor who works only in salvaged scaffolding poles.
Art
Our practice made the shortlist for the museum, then lost to a firm proposing a roof of folded copper.
Architecture
The prize shortlist held six novels, and the bookshop stacked them by the door for the month before the ceremony.
Literature
The national coach cut forty names to a shortlist of sixteen and brought them to a camp in June.
Basketball
The local party drew up a shortlist of three, then let every member vote by post on the final candidate.
Politics
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- Business Word List (part 1)Authoritative
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