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He goes full Elton on the single Hippie Sunshine, external, whose lairy, chanted chorus is suddenly interrupted by a twinkling piano breakdown.

From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026

In a twinkling, the report gets disappeared from public view and public comment as completely as if it had been dropped off the end of the Santa Monica Pier.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 6, 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

The shaft turned upward at a sharp angle—and then, straight ahead, he saw it: a patch of lighter-colored darkness than the pitch black around him, and in the middle of it, three stars twinkling.

From "Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH" by Robert C. O'Brien

"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

So that the aquiline lightning was but momentary; and abated to lambent twinklings, with something even of comic in them, as we shall gather.

From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 14 by Thomas Carlyle

There were starlight twinklings from the bands of those wondrous, dainty, high-heeled little "slipper shoes," as Jimmy called them.

From A Soldier's Trial An Episode of the Canteen Crusade by Charles King

I once might see the fairies dance A-circle in their meadow-haunts, Soft-tapered by the new-moon's glance: Their airy feet in crystal shoon Made twinklings neath the silver moon.

From The Coast of Bohemia by Thomas Nelson Page

Still later, infinitesimal twinklings on the ground at the horizon.

From The Invaders by Murray Leinster