Read full poem →“‘Le’s blow this heah two francs to good friendship be-
ginning,’ said Banjo. “My twinkling stars, but this
Marcelles is a most wonderful place foh meeting-up.”
Dictionary Entry
(of a source of light) to shine with a flickering light; to glimmer
In a Sentence
“We could see the lights of the village twinkling in the distance.”
Origin
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Common Phrases
. twinklingeyes twinklinglights twinklingstars twinklingeye twinklingblue twinklingtwinkling eyestwinkling lights
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Poetry examples for “twinkling”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Wind from the south-land, flashing beams of the sun
Caught in the twinkling oak leaves:
Poppies who wave their untied hoods to the south wind;
Read full poem →This had happened in a twinkling:
He had made life a punching bag, with fists,
Read full poem →That few forgot,
He played the twinkling part
That was his lot.
Read full poem →I went out to Bagley Wood, I climbed the hill ;
Even the moon had slanted off in a twinkling,
Read full poem →Yet drowne them; so, the tapers beamie eye
Amorously twinkling, beckens the giddie flie,
Yet burnes his wings; and such the devill is,
Read full poem →Such morning incense from the fields of May,
As do those brighter drops that twinkling stray
From tliose kind eyes, — the very home and haunt
Read full poem →A hundred lamps beam'd in the tranquil gloom,
From tree to tree all through the twinkling grove,
Revealing all the tumult of the feast--
Read full poem →A hundred lamps beamed in the tranquil gloom,
From tree to tree all through the twinkling grove,
Revealing all the tumult of the feast,--
Read full poem →Sound of vernal showers
On the twinkling grass,
Rain-awakened flowers,