short list

Example Sentences

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To cook the same thing repeatedly — to rely on a short list of meals that work — can begin to feel like a failure of imagination, or worse, a failure of love.

From Salon

There’s a special kind of comfort in having a short list of meals you know, with almost mathematical certainty, will land.

From Salon

Her recipe only calls for a short list of ingredients that also happen to be pantry staples.

From Salon

Scientists have now added another to that short list by observing neutrinos convert carbon atoms into nitrogen inside a massive underground detector.

From Science Daily

“It also had to be somebody that has the chops of a serious technical actor. That is a very short list.”

From Los Angeles Times