twinkle

Example Sentences

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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

Their goal was to understand how the pulsar's radio signal appears to "twinkle" as it travels through clouds of gas on its way to Earth.

From Science Daily • Jan. 6, 2026

But as “Starring Dick Van Dyke” establishes, the agile song-and-dance man with a perpetual twinkle in his eye is much more than that.

From Salon • Dec. 13, 2025

So the three of us sat in silence, watching the sun sink behind the mountain and the lightning bugs twinkle off and on among the pine trees.

From "Wish" by Barbara O'Connor