Example sentences for: semantic

How can you use “semantic” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • One obvious example of a “semantic hole” in sexual relationships is the often-observed absence of neutral terms for unmarried sexual partners.

  • This biological diversity has produced a semantic muddle among biologists—everyone who thinks about the evolution of sexes seems to have a slightly different take on what a sex is.

  • In my own semantic system (and English is my native language), Kamikaze does not usually mean `a pilot' because I have to say `Kamikaze pilot' to refer to someone who is involved in a kamikaze mission.

  • It is a series of sounds impressed into a kind of semantic slavery, for urltil recently the collocations could do no semantic work on their own in their present form.

  • Especially interesting are the descriptors that are taken over from very different semantic domains, such as words that describe personality and character: aggressive, charming, diffident, honest, feminine, masculine . How can these descriptions be meaningful?


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