How to Use semantics in a Sentence

semantics

noun

• The conflict over the surplus size is about semantics, not math.
  — George Skelton, Los Angeles Times, 20 May 2021
• Lucky for me, Hugo prefers to listen to birds rustling in the branches than semantics.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 14 Mar. 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
• 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
• 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’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
• It may not be called a retrospective, but that’s semantics.
  — Vanessa Friedman, New York Times, 17 Nov. 2022
• 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
• There is a point to this game of political semantics, says Stone Fish.
  — Yaffa Fredrick, CNN, 8 Nov. 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
• Identifying these actions as a hate crime isn’t just about semantics.
  — NBC News, 18 Mar. 2021
• In fact, their semantics pose the greatest threat to the transgender community and society at large.
  — Ryan T. Anderson, National Review, 15 June 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
• 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
• One key element of human language is semantics, the connection of words with meanings.
  — Betsy Mason, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Feb. 2022
• But a lot of it comes down to arguments about semantics or definitions or values or perspective.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 13 Sep. 2022
• Most Valuable Player Award may be doomed to failure because of semantics.
  — New York Times, 22 Dec. 2021
• Some critics will say differentiating the words selling and enrolling is just semantics, mere word play for the same strategy and tactics.
  — Henry Devries, Forbes, 26 Oct. 2021
• Wooten's tweet then spurred a larger conversation about describing the technicalities of the disaster and why this cannot be swept away in semantics alone.
  — Brianna Provenzano, refinery29.com, 17 Aug. 2020
• 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
• Whether this new era of geopolitical competition is another cold war is a question of semantics.
  — Walter Russell Mead, WSJ, 7 Feb. 2022
• Always by using ‘yes-no’ questions, independent of the semantics of the messages themselves.
  — Gabriel A. Silva, Forbes, 8 Sep. 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
• Some think this is a matter of semantics with no material difference between sales funnels and revenue funnels.
  — George Bradt, Forbes, 3 May 2022
• Bryson compares the process of viral evolution to the structure of a sentence that relies on grammatical rules and sequence, or semantics, to convey meaning.
  — Brian Browdie, Quartz, 14 Apr. 2021
• 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
• Semantics — the meanings of words — are important, but paranoid delusions are a much deeper problem than semantics.
  — Star Tribune, 9 Dec. 2020
• 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
• Understanding the semantics of business—the way that problems, people and processes work—is key to understanding how best to manage well.
  — Agur Jõgi, Forbes, 22 June 2022

Last Updated: 3 Feb 2023