How to Use semantics in a Sentence

semantics

noun

• Lucky for me, Hugo prefers to listen to birds rustling in the branches than semantics.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 14 Mar. 2021
• It’s not the DNA of the music or the movement or all the semantics that are below the surface level.
  — Josh Chesler, SPIN, 9 July 2022
• The conflict over the surplus size is about semantics, not math.
  — George Skelton, Los Angeles Times, 20 May 2021
• In short: The divide involves a lot of semantics and reading between the lines.
  — Lucinda Shen, Fortune, 22 Sep. 2020
• Fancy semantics aside, the halo draws your eye from the sharp, pointed bow, along the sleek steel hull and down to the large swim platform aft.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 22 July 2022
• There is a point to this game of political semantics, says Stone Fish.
  — Yaffa Fredrick, CNN, 8 Nov. 2021
• For now, the demise of the slot cornerback term in favor of cover safety might mostly be about semantics.
  — Nathan Baird, cleveland, 23 Aug. 2021
• But there’s advice to the president which is don't argue over semantics, that's my job as a language guy.
  — ABC News, 31 July 2022
• Because surely those semantics would be okay if someone were talking about her in the same manner.
  — Jean Bentley, refinery29.com, 27 May 2020
• It may not be called a retrospective, but that’s semantics.
  — Vanessa Friedman, New York Times, 17 Nov. 2022
• Appointing a Phaneesh or Nwamaka instead of a Bob turns out to be more than a play with semantics.
  — Christian Stadler, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2021
• But the difference between the part of the IRGC that represses foreigners and the one repressing us at home is semantics.
  — Hossein Ronaghi, WSJ, 17 May 2022
• Most Valuable Player Award may be doomed to failure because of semantics.
  — New York Times, 22 Dec. 2021
• Also like language, from the immune system’s perspective, the sequence could also be said to have a kind of semantics.
  — Gregory Barber, Wired, 14 Jan. 2021
• But the battle of semantics is a cover for a turf war that involves not just place but memory and reality.
  — Los Angeles Times, 12 July 2021
• Whether or not monkeypox is an STI is largely a case of semantics, Harvey and other experts say.
  — Erin Prater, Fortune, 27 Aug. 2022
• In fact, their semantics pose the greatest threat to the transgender community and society at large.
  — Ryan T. Anderson, National Review, 15 June 2022
• The new work on semantics was completely independent of the work on memory — the two unfolding at around the same time but on opposite sides of the United States.
  — Quanta Magazine, 8 Feb. 2022
• Identifying these actions as a hate crime isn’t just about semantics.
  — NBC News, 18 Mar. 2021
• Capturing their bodies in the half-light, out of focus, from above, and behind, the camera finds a visual language of disturbing semantics.
  — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 10 Feb. 2022
• Russian grammar is similar to Ukrainian — perhaps a tad closer than, say, Ukrainian and Polish — but the semantics are not that close.
  — New York Times, 22 Apr. 2022
• Angie does seem to enjoy playing with semantics and never owning up to anything.
  — Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 2 Nov. 2022
• Sidewalk semantics aside, at least a few Faulconer critics took issue with him regarding homeless tents in San Diego.
  — Michael Smolens Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 July 2021
• One key element of human language is semantics, the connection of words with meanings.
  — Betsy Mason, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Feb. 2022
• For an actor intent on hearing the music in his work—someone who played bongos on the set of Leaving Las Vegas to hone his line delivery—the job title is a matter of semantics.
  — Dan Piepenbring, Harper’s Magazine , 18 Jan. 2022
• The league says race-norming was never mandatory, but that's simply semantics, because the NFL appealed some claims filed by Black players if their scores weren't adjusted for race.
  — Mike Freeman, USA TODAY, 2 June 2021
• Farming doesn’t even have a universal definition among humans, and the semantics only get messier when the concept is applied to other species.
  — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 11 July 2022
• Always by using ‘yes-no’ questions, independent of the semantics of the messages themselves.
  — Gabriel A. Silva, Forbes, 8 Sep. 2021
• But a lot of it comes down to arguments about semantics or definitions or values or perspective.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 13 Sep. 2022
• At a certain point, one realizes, the difference between Bond villain and billionaire is simply a matter of semantics.
  — Jennifer Wilson, The Atlantic, 7 Nov. 2022

Last Updated: 17 Jul 2024