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twinkling

[twing-kling] / ˈtwɪŋ klɪŋ /






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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

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 Feb. 14, 2026

That night, out on the back porch with Gus and Bertha, I saw the first star, twinkling over the treetops.

From "Wish" by Barbara O'Connor

"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

In nine times nine twinklings of the eye must all be completed.'

From Tales from the German. Volume II. The Lichtensteins, The Sorceress, The Anabaptist by Velde, Carl Franz van der

Carnival in an ordinary little Italian town seems, no doubt, commonplace enough to those who have seen its glories in Rome—the crowded Corso, the rush of the maddened horses, the firefly twinklings of the Maccoletti.

From Stray Studies from England and Italy by Greene, John Richard

The mobility of it, its expressive twinklings and winkings, and the intercommunications between the eye, the ear, and it, were of the oddest and swiftest.

From Graded Lessons in English An Elementary English Grammar Consisting of One Hundred Practical Lessons, Carefully Graded and Adapted to the Class-Room by Reed, Alonzo

Most of our chaps patronize the King's Head—first-rate place; get anything you like in two twinklings of a lamb's tail.

From Life in London or, the Pitfalls of a Great City by Hodder, Edwin




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