The phrase "appear in a short" is not correct and does not convey a clear meaning in written English.
It may be intended to refer to something being featured or included in a brief format, but it lacks clarity and context.
Example: "The article will appear in a short segment on the evening news."
Alternatives: "featured in a brief" or "included in a short piece".
And many of the guests are people who appear in a short segment on the cable channel and then stay for a longer chat on the Web.
Instead, Ms. Leo agreed, as she has on other occasions with novice directors, to appear in a short film by Ms. Hunt, who was hoping to make a calling card to raise money for the feature.
The company has only made one major advertising push, -- in the 1960's, it got Whitey Ford to endorse the product and appear in a short film about how to throw the Wiffle ball -- but it ultimately decided it was not worth the expense.
Line two seemed to promise a clumsiness of expression, but everything was smooth and assured in a remarkable poem which left me thinking how slow and plain this mysterious sequence of events might appear in a short story; unless, of course, it was in the hands of a master, a Conrad or a Camus.
Her short story, about a powerful love affair, will appear in a short story collection by the same name this December -- how many months until December again?
Another designer, Fremont, Calif.-based Nancy Vuu, sent an email soliciting parents to pay thousands of dollars for their model children to appear in a short film.
Sixty-three yeago ago, a drawing of a double helix appeared in a short scientific paper in the journal Nature.
She has appeared in a short film, "Something in Between" (2002), and is the vice president of the National Ovarian Cancer Coalition.
The actor, who has not taken on many roles in the past three years, most recently appeared in a short film with Jack Ma, the founder of e-commerce giant Alibaba Group.
An anorexic has-been actress named Stacey Chavez is attempting a comeback by way of appearing in a short documentary about landmine clearance in Mozambique.
By 2009 two other researchers had pushed it back to 1962, when it appeared in a short story about a brush salesman and an article in a car magazine.
