- present participle of twinkle.
twinkling
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Digital creators also walked the red carpet twinkling and sparkling in cultures and sculpted dresses.
From BBC ● May 10, 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
Let’s take a moment to appreciate the cabin headliner, twinkling like thousands of LED stars in the firmament.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 4, 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
She spotted plush sofas and fancy dining carts and twinkling lights inside them.
From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton
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"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
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 Edwin Hodder
Again, inter-stellar space is, of course, absolutely black and devoid of any form of light save the faint twinklings of the far-off stars.
From The Problems of Psychical Research Experiments and Theories in the Realm of the Supernormal by Hereward Carrington
Still later, infinitesimal twinklings on the ground at the horizon.
From The Invaders by Murray Leinster
And Odysseus gazed at the twinklings of the feet, and marvelled in spirit.
From The Odyssey Done into English prose by Andrew Lang
Vocabulary lists containing twinkling
Let There Be Light: Synonyms for "Bright"
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"Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" by Lewis Carroll, Chapters 7–9
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"Not-So-Starry Nights: Light Pollution Turns Night into Day"
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