1.   He told me he never intended to make that semantic distinction.

2.   His venture into columnizing in The New York Times was followed by second-day explanations and more semantic distinctions.

3.   His rhetoric, in its post-presidential phase, echoes with familiar semantic distinctions and careful phraseology.

4.   In fact, any word fan who has ever bemoaned the loss of a nice semantic distinction is bound to applaud this development.

5.   Later, when his plane landed in Portland, Dole appeared to be calculating his course and responded to questions by drawing a semantic distinction.