twinkle
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He had a twinkle in his eye, and seven of the most famous words in Dodgers broadcasting lore at the ready.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026
It’s something that should have come up at your onboarding with the financial planner, even if you signed up with them a long time ago and retirement was only a twinkle in your eye.
From MarketWatch ● May 26, 2026
Yang, twinkle in her eye, kept us on our toes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026
"You're not meant to be laughing, but you can see all your mates trying to make you laugh, and they've got that twinkle in their eye," she says.
From BBC ● Mar. 27, 2026
The twinkle in her eye says it all.
From "Like Vanessa" by Tami Charles
Today, Lenker’s grin twinkles with a permanent gold replacement.
From New York Times ● Mar. 11, 2024
Washington’s Bavarian-style village twinkles throughout winter, with millions of candy-colored lights adorning trees and traditional, snow-topped timber-framed buildings.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 14, 2022
To reach phones on the ground, the satellite uses a large, reflective antenna roughly the size of a racquetball court that twinkles brightly as it orbits.
From Science Magazine ● Nov. 13, 2022
At the top of each hour while lit, it twinkles thanks to 20,000 flashing bulbs.
From Reuters ● Sep. 13, 2022
Their glittering brass helmets and breastplates shone like pure gold; the short swords they brandished also caught the brassy sunshine with twinkles of light that flashed in the eyes of the crowd.
From "Tiger, Tiger" by Lynne Reid Banks
In the distance, the lights of the Southland twinkled underneath a scrim of haze.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 26, 2024
The world leaders will gather for the meal at the Bharat Mandapam building, a sprawling exhibition center in the heart of New Delhi, which twinkled with blinking lights on Saturday night.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 9, 2023
Likewise, he twinkled about once having had to inform Jerome Robbins of a decision Balanchine had made that overruled Robbins: Bob described himself as having been, on that occasion, “the messenger of the gods.”
From New York Times ● Jun. 23, 2023
Below it, lights twinkled in the town of Lone Pine 8,000 feet below.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 2023
His eyes twinkled as he said, “New Voice, I’m not a dry tree branch, ready to crack in the breeze.”
From "The Ugly One" by Leanne Statland Ellis
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 store’s front facade was wrapped in a giant plaid scarf made of 126,000 twinkling Christmas lights.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 27, 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
The sky is an aurora of reds, oranges, and violets, dotted with infinite batches of twinkling stars.
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
