The phrase "a short guest" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a guest who is physically small in stature or perhaps someone who is only visiting for a brief period of time.
Example: "During the event, we had a short guest who shared some fascinating stories about his travels."
Alternatives: "a petite visitor" or "a brief guest".
Representative Lamar Smith, Republican of Texas, said that a "true" guest worker program would have to be a "short" guest worker program, seeming to rule out the possibility of any form of legalization for the workers.
Like Star Trek's Spock, the next afternoon I was beamed aboard Club Med with a handful of other journalists and a short guest list that included the 1992 America's Cup winner, Bill Koch, and the New York Yacht Club commodore, George Isdale Jr., for a remarkable daysail in Rhode Island Sound.
After doing a short guest spot on "All in the Family" as a cop, he was cast as long-suffering Walter, who during the course of the series is forced to come to grips with his drinking problem and even falls into a depression when he loses his job.
Gonzalez liked LuPone's short guest spot, and hoped it would be "a lesson to producers in how to deal with guest appearances in the future".
Her on-air presence, however, has been limited to just a handful of reports and a short stint guest-hosting "NBC Nightly News".
Meanwhile, in the Shipyards, Ms. Dell'Amore and Mr. Raber have been patrolling the parking lots and filing reports with the city's code enforcement division -- at the city's request, they say -- every time they suspect that a unit has been rented to a short-term guest.
On a daily basis, the staff arrives between 10am-2pm-so that they don't have to try to cram work in within a short time before guests arrive.
From welcoming your guests to the party to a short description of your guest of honor's best qualities, a considerate comment will be appreciated and well received when it is executed simply and concisely.
Self-consistent field (SCF) calculation shows that the higher molecular weight guest chains are more excluded from the micellar corona chains to be localized between the micellar particles, which enlarge the lattice distance more pronouncedly than the shorter guest chains do.
You might give a short summary of each guest writer's biography above their comments, and create a catchy title for each guest's post that sums up his or her thinking.
But that someone was less a roommate than a vaguely familiar guest, a short, dark-haired woman whom he would graciously invite to join him for lunch or dinner, usually offering her her own food.
