How to Use finalist in a Sentence

finalist

noun

• They interviewed all of the finalists before making a decision.
• In 2023, the Hermitage was a top-five finalist in the World's Best Awards.
  — Stefanie Waldek, Travel + Leisure, 19 Mar. 2024
• This week’s finalists are both from the Green Bay area.
  — Madison Lammert, Journal Sentinel, 14 Oct. 2024
• Thomas was a four-time finalist for the Hall who was held out the first three instances.
  — David Furones, Sun Sentinel, 10 Feb. 2023
• Here are the four other finalists in the last round of voting.
  — Jenny Rudolph, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 26 Mar. 2024
• All the winners and finalists of the Drone Photo Award are here.
  — Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes, 6 Oct. 2024
• On the course at Jeddah, the four finalists line up for the rolling start of the final race, among them Team Brady.
  — J. George Gorant, Robb Report, 9 May 2024
• White was first-team all-state and a finalist for Class 6A player of the year as a junior.
  — Ike Morgan | [e-mail], al, 11 Aug. 2023
• That group has now been narrowed down to 10 finalists who will be put to the test Sunday.
  — Sal Pizarro, The Mercury News, 1 June 2024
• For the full list of NLA Awards winners and finalists, visit newsleaders.org.
  — Los Angeles Times, 2 Aug. 2023
• García, who had been the Rangers’ fifth finalist in the voting for starter, also made the 2021 All-Star team.
  — Evan Grant, Dallas News, 2 July 2023
• The complete list of this year’s Pulitzer Prize winners and finalists can be found at pulitzer.org.
  — Los Angeles Times, 6 May 2024
• The organizers were once again kind enough to share some of the winners and finalists here.
  — Alan Taylor, The Atlantic, 15 June 2023
• Profiles of the finalists can be found online at president-search.umn.edu/presidential-finalists.
  — Alex Derosier, Twin Cities, 9 Feb. 2024
• Those finalists, Driver said, will be made known to the public.
  — Sam Charles, Chicago Tribune, 10 May 2023
• Flashback: Houston was one of four finalists for the 2012 U.S. Olympic bid.
  — Rahul Mukherjee, Axios, 13 Aug. 2024
• The move comes three weeks after news broke that Platt was one of three finalists for the city manager’s job in Austin, Texas.
  — Mike Hendricks, Kansas City Star, 28 Mar. 2024
• When Gauff was announced as a finalist, sales spiked 20% overnight.
  — Alicia Adamczyk, Fortune, 6 Dec. 2023
• Only a few weeks earlier, chaos had rocked the world of fair food when the finalists of the Big Tex Choice Awards were announced.
  — Ella Quittner, New York Times, 14 Oct. 2023
• Its team chose three finalists, which will be in stores this fall before a winner is crowned.
  — Cheryl V. Jackson, The Courier-Journal, 17 Sep. 2024
• Stroud got the nod in 2021, broke school records and became a two-time Heisman Trophy finalist.
  — Mitch Stacy, ajc, 6 Mar. 2023
• The awards' longlists will be announced Wednesday and finalists will be unveiled on Oct. 3.
  — S. Dev, CBS News, 13 Sep. 2023
• The 2021 Gold Glove Award finalist should have been charged with three errors, and Newman has lacked range all season.
  — Charlie Goldsmith, The Enquirer, 14 May 2023
• No Buckeye had been a two-time finalist since the award started inviting more than just the winner in 1982.
  — Nathan Baird, cleveland, 10 Dec. 2022
• Cole Anthony and Markelle Fultz, who won the award last year, were also finalists for this year’s award.
  — Khobi Price, Orlando Sentinel, 25 Mar. 2023
• Norman is among two finalists to become the police chief in Austin, Texas.
  — Steven Martinez, Journal Sentinel, 16 July 2024
• The all-around, vault, beam and floor finalists are in secure positions.
  — NBC News, 29 July 2024
• Watch the finalists’ impressive freestyles below, and stream Dancing With the Stars on Disney+.
  — Anna Chan, Billboard, 6 Dec. 2023
• The emotional and incisive play was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize in 2019.
  — Adam Tamburin, Axios, 1 Nov. 2024
• In the end, Ms. Brooks was one of two finalists asked to play additional excerpts and to sit for a face-to-face interview with the judges.
  — Sarah Diamond Christopher Lee, New York Times, 27 May 2024

Last Updated: 18 Nov 2024