Sentence examples for semantic distinctions from inspiring English sources

Ask Jeeves makes semantic distinctions, so that "curry," the spice, will be distinct from "curry," the horse care.

But even semantic distinctions indicate a news program's sensibility.

There are some semantic distinctions to heed here — for instance, between defense cuts and "security" cuts.

An essay could be written on the semantic distinctions, which Owens had just elided, between mistakes and accidents, and between accidents and pratfalls.

In certain cases these semantic distinctions can be seen clearly when the same root for an inanimate noun appears in the different genders.

Of far more importance than making semantic distinctions between activity types is for young people entering at various levels to realise that they are part of the broader inclusive engineering profession.

Lesley Brown (1986) has argued that there is no sharp semantic distinction between the two syntactically distinct uses of the verb "to be" in "x is F" and "x is".

This is not a trivial semantic distinction.

However, this seems to be largely a semantic distinction.

Is there a consensus among discerning writers that it conveys an interesting semantic distinction?

Glad to clear that up, Mrs. Sarkozy, a semantic distinction conveyed with best wishes for a long and blissful monogamy.