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• We could see the lights of the village twinkling in the distance.From the entry twinkle
• All my dreams for him have been cut short in the twinkling of an eye.2007 April 28, Hugh Muir, The Guardian. From the entry in the twinkling of an eye
• The display has little explodey pink love-hearts twinkling and falling to either side of the multi-coloured numbers.2007, Charles Stross, Halting State, page 319. From the entry explodey
• Lights twinkling with Christmas, the gift counter piled with white teddy bears and boxes of beribboned candies.1963, J P Donleavy, A Singular Man, published 1963 (USA), page 15. From the entry beribboned
• He had the tilted eyebrows, the twinkling goaty look, and the pointed ears of a goat-Pan.1925, D. H. Lawrence, St Mawr. From the entry goaty
• Perhaps supernovas are twinkling omnicides in the sky.2020, Thomas Moynihan, X-Risk: How Humanity Discovered Its Own Extinction, Falmouth, Cornwall: Urbanomic Media, →ISBN, page 292. From the entry omnicide
• "You're funny," he says, his eyes twinkling.2012 October 1, Miranda Kenneally, Stealing Parker, Sourcebooks, Inc., →ISBN, page 63. From the entry le
• He tenderly bowed to the twinkling girl.2005, Nigel Jonathan Spivey, Songs on Bronze. From the entry livesome
• The stars were twinkling on, and the moon rising.2000, Ascent - Volumes 25-26, page 88. From the entry vampire time
• For who would sorcel a voice an hundred leagues in the twinkling of an eye would sorcel indeed.1986, Justin Leiber, The Sword and the Tower, TOR, →ISBN, page 7. From the entry sorcel
• Never have I known men who could get so puggled in a twinkling yet, somehow, still keep going.1977, James Aikman Cochrane, Charlie Company. From the entry puggled
• Large, steady, purplish-grey eyes gazed into beady, twinkling, black ones—gazed unquailingly—with something in them that cowed and compelled.1923, Lucy Maud Montgomery, “Chapter 8”, in Emily of New Moon. From the entry cow
• Here the curtains were undrawn and they could see the lights twinkling out in the windows of the other houses.1923, Elizabeth Bowen, “The Shadowy Third”, in Encounters, page 153. From the entry undrawn
• The twinkling gleam in the blue eyes was playful, almost boyish, but the well rounded chest, board flat stomach and tight bottom were anything but.2009, Dave Russell, Raritan Female Institute, page 90. From the entry Cleopatran
• The only other man was a little grey-headed fellow with a pleasant face and quick, twinkling eyes, who sat at a harmonium in the corner.1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “Which Describes Some Strange Doings in Hammersmith”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no.…. From the entry harmonium
• And all she saw was a frameful of twinkling stars and inky scrub between the posts and lintel of a bush verandah.1913, Lord Frederick Spencer Hamilton, Sidney Daryl, Charles Robert Morley, The Pall Mall Magazine - Volume 51, page 320. From the entry frameful
• We had not been engaged in our reading very long when at the far end of the arch I noticed a twinkling light.1903 October, Rev. Arthur Tappan Pierson, quoting Hogg, Quintin, “Quintin Hogg and the London Polytechnic”, in Missionary Review of the…. From the entry kool
• For Ben, growing up, it was pure magic - a log fire in the grate, real candles on the giant tree, tea-lights twinkling on the tables.2008 February 28, Lisa Forest, “Mind the gap: Empty house, empty nest, empty fridge”, in The Telegraph, archived from the original on 07…. From the entry chez
• Beyond the terrace the twinkling city lights faded, dark stars, and blood seeped from brick and glass, streamed along concrete and steel until the streets grew soaked with scarlet.2007, Howard Hopkins, “Death Reign of the Zombie Queen”, in The Spider Chronicles, Calumet City, I.L.: Moonstone Books, →ISBN, page 78. From the entry bloodwater
• He was completely bald and had a heavy, Chinese-looking countenance which contained, deeply embedded, two eyes of penetration and pertness, always twinkling on the edge of laughter.1983, Lawrence Durrell, Sebastian, Faber & Faber 2004 (Avignon Quintet), p. 1021. From the entry pertness
• Through the trees ahead came odd strains from the dance band in the Casino, and now I could see many twinkling fairy lights and detect moving figures.1930, Sax Rohmer, The Day the World Ended, published 1969, page i. 13. From the entry fairy lights
• For several evenings the pale twinkling of the somber zodiacal stars lighted up the west side of the heavens for some time after the sun had set.1912, Henryk Sienkiewicz, chapter 14, in Mary Webb Artois, transl., Through the Desert, New York: Benziger Brothers. From the entry zodiacal

Meaning of twinkling

1. adjective Sparkling intermittently.
2. noun A shining with fast intermittent light.
3. noun A very short period, notionally the time it takes to blink the eyes.

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How do you use twinkling in a sentence?

Twinkling is used as an adjective and noun. For example: “The housework was done in a twinkling.”

What is a short sentence with twinkling?

“"You're funny," he says, his eyes twinkling.”

What does twinkling mean?

Twinkling means sparkling intermittently.