Sentence examples for became a finalist from inspiring English sources

Others asked for a fee only if he became a finalist.

Last year a teenage German author, Helene Hegemann, published a novel that became a finalist for the Leipzig Book Fair prize, despite plagiarism charges against her.

Last month, the novel, republished in Beirut in 2007, became a finalist for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction, a new award modeled on Britain's Man Booker Prize.

Once it became a finalist, the documentary was screened by the academy, the American Film Institute and the Simon Wiesenthal Center.

USA Today nominated him four times for the Pulitzer Prize before he became a finalist, on the fifth try, two years ago, in the category of beat reporting.

Ms. Stemme's career went international in 1993, when she became a finalist in the Cardiff Singer of the World competition and a winner of Mr. Domingo's first Operalia competition.

A student who becomes a finalist has two choices.

Landy did not become a finalist, but it wasn't a wasted weekend.

To become a finalist from the North American group, nominees must receive approval on at least seven of nine ballots.

"In whatever kind of a 'race' life may be," he wrote, "I have abruptly become a finalist".

Additionally, New England's defensive coordinator, Romeo Crennel, who is black, was interviewed but did not become a finalist.