37 examples of circumflex in sentences

['x] Circumflex [^x] Breve (u-shaped symbol over letter)

The circumflex (~) is placed on a syllable formed by the combination of two, the first of which had an acute and the second a grave; hence only on the last, or next to the last syllable, and only on a long vowel or a diphthong.

When the last syllable has a short vowel, such a penult, if accented, takes the circumflex.

fem., § 28; circumflex, § 6; local dat., § 88; emphatic position, § 98.

are always circumflex when accented on last syllable.

A branch of it is turned forwards to join with the coronary circle in forming the circumflex artery of the coronet.

Among the larger branches given off from its anterior portion are two descending, one on each side of the extensor pedis, to assist in the formation of the Circumflex Artery of the Coronary Cushion.

Gaining the outer aspect of the wing, it distributes a further backward branch, which passes behind the circumflex artery of the pedal bone, and, during its passage in the preplantar fissure, gives off ascending and descending branches, which ramify in the laminal tissue.

This constitutes the Circumflex Artery of the Toe.

(2) By the Circumflex or Peripheral Vein of the Toe, a canal formed by ramifications from the solar and the podophyllous plexuses, and following the direction of the artery of the same name.

The circumflex vein terminates by forwarding branches to concur in the formation of the superficial coronary plexus.

The podophyllous veins anastomose below with the circumflex vein of the solar plexus, and above with the veins of the coronary plexus.

If that doesn't work, proceed to: In the Latin-1 version, the words listed above will have a circumflex (â or û) instead of a macron, the Greek word will be transliterated and shown between #marks#, and the form "oe" is two letters.

When the slide is first downward and then upward, it is called the rising circumflex, or "the gravo-acute circumflex;" when first upward and then downward, it is denominated the falling circumflex, or "the acuto-grave circumflex."

When the slide is first downward and then upward, it is called the rising circumflex, or "the gravo-acute circumflex;" when first upward and then downward, it is denominated the falling circumflex, or "the acuto-grave circumflex."

When the slide is first downward and then upward, it is called the rising circumflex, or "the gravo-acute circumflex;" when first upward and then downward, it is denominated the falling circumflex, or "the acuto-grave circumflex."

There are three Sorts of Accents, an Acute, a Grave, and an Inflex, which is also call'd a Circumflex.

The Circumflex is a kind of Undulation, or Waving of the Voice.

What is the use of the Circumflex?

What constitutes a circumflex?

What constitutes the rising, and what the falling, circumflex?

discrimination; what should determine the direction of Inflection, what constitutes the circumflex Innovation extravagant, into the system of synt.

"Amongst them [the ancients,] we know that accents were marked by certain inflexions [inflections] of the voice like musical notes; and the grammarians to this day, with great formality inform their pupils, that the acute accent, is the raising [of] the voice on a certain syllable; the grave, a depression of it; and the circumflex, a raising and depression both, in one and the same syllable.

If we are studying Greek accents, it is interesting to know that pais and pas, and some other monosyllables of the same form of declension, do not take the circumflex upon the last syllable of the genitive plural, but vary, in this respect, from the common rule.

Experience shows us that the generality of men will find more interest in learning that, when a taper burns, the wax is converted into carbonic acid and water, or in learning the explanation of the phenomenon of dew, or in learning how the circulation of the blood is carried on, than they find in learning that the genitive plural of pais and pas does not take the circumflex on the termination.

37 examples of  circumflex  in sentences