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• Twinkle toes over there is the best dancer here.From the entry twinkle toes
• "Maybe for you it is," Kent says, a twinkle in his eye.2023 April 4, Tony Correia, One Summer in Vancouver, Lorimer, →ISBN, page 108. From the entry disco nap
• Kid, I've been running fight outfits since long before you were a twinkle in your daddy's eye.2016, Mackenzie Crowne, To Win Her Heart, page 51. From the entry twinkle in one's daddy's eye
• Peel, with a twinkle in her eye, responds that “his cheek will come nowhere near my jowl.”2015, Tom Soter, Investigating Couples, page 89. From the entry cheek to jowl
• “Thirty years ago you would not even have been a twinkle in your father's eye.”2010, Max Overton, Jim Darley, Sequestered, Sequestered Books, →ISBN. From the entry twinkle in one's father's eye
• Because when her eyes twinkle and blinkle with excitement, her wrinkles crinkle up into a smile.2008, Lori Z. Scott, Meghan Rose All Dressed Up. From the entry blinkle
• 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
• Bean Toomey was upholding the law when you were still just a twinkle in your daddy's eye.1994, Suzanne Elizabeth, Kiley's Storm, page 144. From the entry twinkle in one's daddy's eye
• I was doing this job when you were just a drunken twinkle in your father's eye!'1992, Martina Cole, Dangerous Lady, Headline Publishing, published 2008, →ISBN. From the entry twinkle in one's father's eye
• Twinkle, sparkle and shine the holidays through in glamorwear fashioned from our gorgeous metallic brocades!1969 November 12, The Times, volume LXIV, number 125, Hammond, East Chicago, Ind.; Calumet City-Lansing, Ill., page 3A. From the entry glamorwear
• "Och, man, it's only the Beltane ree," he said with a lively twinkle, enjoying our bewilderment.1952, Ursula Venables, Tempestuous Eden, page 147. From the entry ree
• 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
• "Bone apple teeth," Cook says with an entirely straight face, though there is a twinkle in his grey eyes.2024 September 17, M[elinda] Pettengill, “Fire Night”, in Timber Hollow, →ISBN. From the entry bone apple teeth
• “Not anymore!” said Hodgekiss with a twinkle in his eye.2012 April 11, Tricia Bennett, Polly Brown: A Modern-Day Oliver With a Twist, Charisma Media, →ISBN. From the entry horlicks
• Shards twinkle screamed in a circle around her head.2000, John Palisano, Journey Through Time, Authorhouse, →ISBN, page 9. From the entry eep
• The visual world begins to vibrate at the same frequency until everything breaks up into geometric patterns and crystalline twinkles.1994, Douglas Rushkoff, Cyberia: Life in the Trenches of Hyperspace, →ISBN, page 121. From the entry machine elf
• 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
• 'Get this one into bed and it's a royal flush!' His face twinkled, his gums sparkled, his eyes kindled, his brow darkened.2009, Claire Kilroy, All Names Have Been Changed. From the entry drinkle
• Across the asphalt that was sufficiently semifluid to receive and embalm millions of starsharp stones and bravely gay candywrappers a drugstore twinkled artificial enticement.1964, Brown, Leonard, A Quarto of Modern Literature, Charles Scribner's Sons, page 554. From the entry candywrapper
• Short, balding, perennially sucking on his pipe, with a constant twinkle in his eye, Lissitzky comes across in memoirs as the Bilbo Baggins of his kind.2015, Jed Rasula, Destruction Was My Beatrice: Dada and the Unmaking of the Twentieth Century, Basic Books, page 229. From the entry Bilbo Baggins
• Long before the slinky Miss Shields was a twinkle in her mama’s eye, nothing came between erstwhile Southern belle Elsa Jane Guerin and her dudely duds.1992, Autumn Stephens, Wild Women. From the entry dudely
• On Sunday morning while church bells rang in the villages alongshore, the word and its mistress returned to Gatsby's house and twinkled hilariously on his lawn.1926, F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, Penguin, published 2000, page 60. From the entry alongshore

Meaning of twinkle

1. verb To shine with a flickering light; to glimmer.
2. verb To be bright with delight.
3. verb To bat, blink or wink the eyes.

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Questions about twinkle in a sentence

How do you use twinkle in a sentence?

Twinkle is used as a verb and noun. For example: “We could see the lights of the village twinkling in the distance.”

What is a short sentence with twinkle?

“His shrewd little eyes twinkled roguishly.”

What does twinkle mean?

Twinkle means to shine with a flickering light; to glimmer.