Example sentences for: semantically

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

  • In the CIDE the effort has been made to simplify such entries in limiting the number of senses dealt with by writing a few definitions--fifteen, in the case of take --that are intended to encompass semantically the basic range of meanings the editors deem to be required by typical users of the dictionary.

  • I have tried to build my argument not on the over-interpretation of single, apparently key words but on the evidence of the use of those words within a set, within a context of groupings of semantically related words that gain weight and suggest directions of enquiry from their mass.

  • It is not surprising, semantically speaking, that the word widened its meaning so quickly since it naturally lent itself (as did closet ) to the description of a solitary place, one where people performed lavatorial functions.

  • There are semantically and grammatically complex ways of doing this, as study of the transcript of any Eisenhower press conference will demonstrate.

  • Most of the time, two (or more) words that appear to be “pure” synonyms semantically tend to diverge in application or distribution (e.g.


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