The name Brown, when pronounced, is a circumflex accent.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reveries of a Schoolmaster] Reference

(Hadn't heard "circumflex" since studying classical Greek.    From Wordnik.com.  [AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed] Reference

How silly of me, it is not a macronish-thing, it is a circumflex!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Under Construction] Reference

"Ramped and roared the lions" with a falling circumflex inflection on.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ontario High School Reader] Reference

The accent circumflex can be applied to upper - and lower-case vowels.    From Wordnik.com.  [SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles - Part 614] Reference

But the circumflex indicates that there used to be an "s" in the word.    From Wordnik.com.  [Debut Showcase: The Inferior] Reference

Exclamations often have a circumflex inflection, as "Really!" spoken in.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Principles of English Versification] Reference

The circumflex accents which served Luke for eyebrows shot up on his forehead.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tiger in the Smoke]

Campion looked up to find his circumflex-accented eyes wide with astonishment.    From Wordnik.com.  [More Work for the Undertaker]

For similar reasons, avoid the circumflex when emphasizing "hand" and "feet" in.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ontario High School Reader] Reference

The vocal indication of this connective principle is the circumflex inflection.    From Wordnik.com.  [Public Speaking] Reference

Gen. and dat. of 1st and 2d decl. are always circumflex when accented on last syllable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Greek in a Nutshell] Reference

The AFTER picture showed a far happier circumflex with blood flowing freely through it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ray McGovern: Why single-payer health insurance is close to his heart] Reference

The right and left external iliac arteries, each is crossed by the circumflex ilii vein.    From Wordnik.com.  [Surgical Anatomy] Reference

When the last syllable has a short vowel, such a penult, if accented, takes the circumflex.    From Wordnik.com.  [Greek in a Nutshell] Reference

The lumbar, the gluteal, and the circumflex ilii arteries, also communicate around the hip-bone.    From Wordnik.com.  [Surgical Anatomy] Reference

I also like having the final grave and the occasional circumflex for vowels, but that's just me.    From Wordnik.com.  [languagehat.com: TRANSLATING EUROPE'S BABEL.] Reference

The a-circumflex just goes to an "a", but we have several choices we can make about the pound sign.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Project Gutenberg FAQ 2002] Reference

His large eyes are pale blue and shallowly set; his thin eyebrows arch above them like circumflex accents.    From Wordnik.com.  [Billionaire with a Cause] Reference

Pg. 8, "fete" grave accent changed to circumflex, matching spelling on page 289. (a sort of fête was made of it).    From Wordnik.com.  [In Eastern Seas Or, the Commission of H.M.S. 'Iron Duke,' flag-ship in China, 1878-83] Reference

Both these circumflex inflections may be exemplified in the word "so," in a speech of the clown, in Shakespeare's.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Canadian Elocutionist] Reference

The circumflex vein terminates by forwarding branches to concur in the formation of the superficial coronary plexus.    From Wordnik.com.  [Diseases of the Horse's Foot] Reference

I refer to the displacement of the head of the humerus by the force of gravity, when the circumflex nerve is injured.    From Wordnik.com.  [Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre] Reference

Chaine circumflex over the i, and wherever this word appears elsewhere in the book (e.g. Introduction, notes 5 and 8).    From Wordnik.com.  [Pirke Avot Sayings of the Jewish Fathers] Reference

As already shown on page 21, the emphasis, in the case of implied contrast, is brought out by the circumflex inflection.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ontario High School Reader] Reference

A, as Asia, why not da; fare and ware; how can one Vowel have another, at command to make it long; a circumflex might do it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Magazine, or Animadversions on the English Spelling (1703)] Reference

Let's assume we're making this into a 7-bit text, so we're going to convert the non-ASCII character a-circumflex and the pound sign.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Project Gutenberg FAQ 2002] Reference

The two circumflex humeri alone send down branches to inosculate with the small muscular offsets from the middle of the brachial artery.    From Wordnik.com.  [Surgical Anatomy] Reference

The podophyllous veins anastomose below with the circumflex vein of the solar plexus, and above with the veins of the coronary plexus.    From Wordnik.com.  [Diseases of the Horse's Foot] Reference

When it has a combination of the downward and upward slide or a rising circumflex inflection, the meaning is no longer simple but complex.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ontario High School Reader] Reference

A very common mistake in reading is to use the circumflex inflection in emphasizing a word, thus making a contrast where none is intended.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ontario High School Reader] Reference

No. Is he a plantigrade circumflex vertebrate bacterium?.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Horse's Tale] Reference

"Plantigrade circumflex vertebrate bacterium that hasn't any wings and is uncertain.".    From Wordnik.com.  [A Horse's Tale] Reference

"It is a plantigrade circumflex vertebrate bacterium that hasn't any wings and is uncertain.".    From Wordnik.com.  [A Horse's Tale] Reference