Sentence examples for grave accent from inspiring English sources

(The grave accent in Liège was officially approved over the acute in 1946).

Navajo uses two pitches in this way—high, represented by an acute accent, and low, represented by a grave accent.

The grave accent in Daniel Brière's surname is still the only diacritical mark on a Canadiens name bar, and he is out with a concussion sustained Oct. 19.

Four degrees of accentuation may be differentiated: primary, secondary, tertiary, and weak, which may be indicated, respectively, by acute, circumflex, and grave accent marks and by the breve.

In linguistic literature an acute accent is used for falling tones and a tilde for rising tones; the grave accent is used for short, stressed vowels.

One orthographic dictionary (by E. Muuk), for example, utilizes this principle, placing a grave accent mark before syllables with extra quantity.

To insert, say, an e with an accent grave into a message, long press the "e" on your keyboard.

(In the transition from original to multiple, the idiosyncratic circumflex over the A became an accent grave).

But, too, this morning I couldn't do the computer code for the accent grave in fin-de-siècle, one of my favorite words.

Eugène Green — a native New Yorker, born Eugene Green, who adopted his accent grave along with his French nationality — is the William Christie of the cinema.

-- W. C. Fields (left) stars as the alcoholic Egbert Sous ("accent grave over the E," he insists), unhappy at home, happy at the bar.