Past tense of twinkle
regular verb
The past tense of twinkle is twinkled. The past participle is also twinkled.
Forms of twinkle
| Base form (V1) | twinkle /ˈtwɪŋ.kəl/ |
|---|---|
| Past tense (V2) | twinkled |
| Past participle (V3) | twinkled |
| Present participle | twinkling /ˈtwɪŋklɪŋ/ |
| Third person singular | twinkles |
Twinkled in a sentence
- His shrewd little eyes twinkled roguishly.
- The beatific face broke into a grin and the man's eyes twinkled merrily, like a woodelf's eyes.2001, Ralph Hunter, Winter's Stormy Rage, →ISBN. From the entry woodelf
- Melody, for this, impossibly, was her mother's name, twinkled in a searching manner over the glasses.2000, Anne Enright, What Are You Like?, Random House, published 2001, →ISBN, page 150. From the entry melody
- Chatterer flirted his tale in the saucy way he has, and his eyes twinkled.1915, Thornton W. Burgess, chapter XXI, in The Adventures of Chatterer the Red Squirrel, Boston: Little, Brown, and Company. From the entry flirt
- His eyes twinkled, his laugh was uproaringly infectious.1994, Edith Mucke, Beginning in Triumph: A Memoir, St. Cloud, Minn.: North Star Press of St. Cloud, Inc., →ISBN, page 98. From the entry uproaringly
Meaning of twinkle
- verb To shine with a flickering light; to glimmer.
- verb To be bright with delight.
- verb To bat, blink or wink the eyes.
Questions about the past tense of twinkle
- What is the past tense of twinkle?
- The past tense of twinkle is twinkled.
- What is the past participle of twinkle?
- The past participle of twinkle is twinkled.
- Is twinkle a regular or irregular verb?
- Twinkle is a regular verb: its past tense adds -d.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: twinkle (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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