How to Use Semitic in a Sentence

Semitic

adjective

• These could be Semitic peoples or descendants of Greek settlers in that region.
  — Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 17 Aug. 2026
• Some of the etchings, Bar-Ron says, seem to reflect resistance to the goddess's worship from Semitic workers.
  — Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 18 Aug. 2025
• In the eastern Mediterranean and in North Africa, several major Semitic languages were spoken.
  — Scott Spires, Encyclopedia Britannica, 18 Sep. 2026
• The two etchings were found at Serabit el-Khadim, an ancient turquoise mining site in the Sinai desert where Semitic laborers once worked during the Middle Bronze Age.
  — Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 18 Aug. 2025
• Another language closely associated with Christianity was Coptic, which is not Semitic but a descendant of ancient Egyptian; many early Christian thinkers wrote in both Coptic and Greek.
  — Scott Spires, Encyclopedia Britannica, 18 Sep. 2026
• There’s the Afro-Asiatic family of languages spoken in northern Africa, the Arabian Peninsula, and parts of Western Asia, including Egyptian and Somali, plus Semitic languages such as Arabic, Hebrew, and Aramaic.
  — Martha Barnette august 6, Literary Hub, 6 Aug. 2025