twinkling

She knew she’d chosen well during her first gig in Chicago, when she stepped out onto her skyscraper balcony and saw the city lights twinkling around her.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 27, 2026

Digital creators also walked the red carpet twinkling and sparkling in cultures and sculpted dresses.

From BBC ● May 10, 2026

A scruffy-faced Radcliffe, twinkling accessible geniality in jeans and a sweatshirt, zips up and down the cavernous theater as though waging a one-man campaign against the isolation epidemic.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 12, 2026

The audience rehashed its hunches, they circled potential suspects, they stared at a static image of a horrific crime scene, awash in twinkling moonlight.

From Slate ● Feb. 23, 2026

Doña Lola laughed, and Mami chuckled, her eyes twinkling at me to see if I understood what Doña Lola meant by “when hens learn to pee.”

From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago

"It quickly became clear to me that mutability has these twinklings of joy, sometimes ecstasy, which comes through in the poems, I think."

From The Guardian ● Jan. 27, 2011

And, gazing up at them all, their steady shine and many-coloured twinklings led him to wonder as to the how and the why of them.

From A Maid of the Silver Sea by John Oxenham

These twinklings and reflections and re-reflections did not change their position; but there was one gleam that had motion.

From Widdershins by Oliver [pseud.] Onions

White and gracious with many laces and twinklings, Mrs. Palmer advances, taking to society as a duck takes to the water, and not a little pleased with the sensation she is creating.

From Old Kensington by Miss Thackeray

Again, inter-stellar space is, of course, absolutely black and devoid of any form of light save the faint twinklings of the far-off stars.

From The Problems of Psychical Research Experiments and Theories in the Realm of the Supernormal by Hereward Carrington