twinkle

Example Sentences

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Through the cockpit, the city glowed on the horizon, a strip of twinkling lights severing the night sky from the dark Potomac river.

From The Wall Street Journal

After a romantic ride through chic neighbourhoods, Castel got down on one knee as a violinist played with the twinkling Eiffel Tower in the background.

From Barron's

Only Rowan and Allun saw that her hands were gripping her apron, twisting the white cloth, and that her eyes were twinkling not with laughter but with unshed tears.

From Literature

It was like staring into a field of fireflies, twinkling and blinking and vanishing and reappearing.

From Literature

Pa asked with a twinkle in his eyes.

From Literature