The phrase "a potential host" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to someone or something that could serve as a host for a particular event, organism, or situation.
Example: "The researchers identified a potential host for the virus in the local wildlife population."
Alternatives: "a possible host" or "a likely host".
Also, New York is accustomed to conducting large events, which owners believe is a necessity for a potential host city.
I meet so many amazingly talented and skilled Syrians in Lebanon every week, with so much to offer to a potential host country.
Even though Blatter was publicly neutral, Rothenberg said, it was clear he was intrigued by South Africa as a potential host.
When an insect arrives at a potential host, chemicals on the host's skin likely influence the insect's behaviour, although the role of these chemicals is poorly understood.
Once a zoospore has encountered a potential host, it encysts upon the surface of the skin and penetrates one of the host's epidermal cells.
In January, Fox gave Mr. Feresten a six-week trial run in the Saturday at 11 p.m. time period in the hope that he might emerge as a potential host of a Monday-through-Friday late-night show.
They can smell the exhaled carbon dioxide of a mammal five minutes after the mammal has passed by, and they can also sense minute changes in temperature caused by the motion of a potential host.
The announcement of the New York Cosmos' bid for a soccer stadium as part of the Elmont Town Crossings project at Belmont Park, along with their return to play at Hofstra's Shuart Stadium in the North American Soccer League fall season, brings Long Island's Nassau County — long a hotbed for youth soccer — back into play as a potential host for high-profile international friendlies.
The results suggest Synechocystis sp. PCC 6714 to be suitable as a potential host strain for photoautotrophic PHB production.
An experiment designed to study oxidizing perturbations in deep crystalline rock, a potential host for nuclear waste disposal, was conducted.
The yeast Pichia (Komagataella) pastoris has become a potential host system for recombinant protein (r-protein) production.
