How To Use Twinkling In A Sentence

Steven glanced at me, his eyes once again twinkling.
He had a gentle, kindly manner, twinkling eyes and quick smile, a keen sense of humour and a penetrating wit.
The laser's optical system would have to overcome the distorting effect of atmospheric turbulence, the variations in pressure and temperature that refract starlight to create the "twinkling" effect in the night sky. Pentagon Loses War to Zap Airborne Laser From Budget
With white lights twinkling around the street-facing windows, a single red rose on our table and the candle lamp glowing between us, our fondue dinner felt almost romantic.
It's in all its glory and ready to go back indoors for the tinsel and twinkling lights. The Sun

Twinkling flashbulbs lit up Centre Court like fireworks in the night when Sampras kissed the trophy once again, his eyes glistening from the tears he had shed moments earlier after he whacked his final service winner to beat Patrick Rafter 6-7 Sampras wins historic Wimbledon title
Look at yourself. Are your eyes twinkling? Is your heart dancing? Are your lips smiling? If yes, then you are truly enjoying your life. RVM
These were wild and miserable thoughts; but I cannot describe to you how the eternal twinkling of the stars weighed upon me, and how I listened to every blast of wind, as if it were a dull ugly siroc on its way to consume me. Chapter 17
Feeling disconnected in a chattering city of twinkling lights. Times, Sunday Times
They were amazed at the bright twinkling pattern of starlight as it shone through the window.
In the twinkling of an eye Flemming tried the cross-buttock, but it seemed that Merriwell had been expecting just such a move, for he passed his left leg behind Fred's right and through in front of Fred's left. Frank Merriwell's Races
According to Miranda he told her the story " with twinkling eyes ".
At dusk, as darkness is falling, small red or yellow lights are twinkling in the dark-blue autumn mist.
He still continued, however, cautiously to progress along the road on which be was benighted, and at length the twinkling of a distant light raised some hope of succour in his heart.
The Inn was all aglow with lights twinkling from its many stories, a beacon on the hill above Freeport.
A short, vigorously cheerful woman in a twinkling red dress walked about, greeting each person.
I saw lights twinkling in the little town below us.
The gums were full of budgies, skawking and whistling their parodies of songbirds; finches wheeled from branch to branch; two sulphur-crested cockatoos sat with their heads to one side watching her progress with twinkling eyes; willy-wagtails fossicked in the dirt for ants, their absurd rumps bobbing; crows carked eternally and mournfully. The Thorn Birds
He put is arm around her waist and drew her close to him, his eyes twinkling mischievously.
He held his pale, grubby hand out towards Janet with two twinkling things in it. CHARMED LIFE
It's in all its glory and ready to go back indoors for the tinsel and twinkling lights. The Sun
They seemed rare round there from the time he took; and I was just casting about in my mind as to what method would be best to employ in getting up the smooth, yellow, sandy-clay, incurved walls, when he arrived with it, and I was out in a twinkling, and very much ashamed of myself, until Silence, who was then leading, disappeared through the path before us with a despairing yell. Travels in West Africa
With the soft music in the background, the room seemed alive, and the small, twinkling colored sparks of light turned the room into a fairyland full of stars.
Draco leaned his bare back carefully against the rough bark of the beech tree staring up at the moon and the brilliant twinkling stars.
He could have passed for an officer of the navy, with his young, strong features, floppy dark hair and twinkling eyes.
The stage was like an enchanted garden with the musicians surrounded by pink twinkling trees and glittering silver statues. Times, Sunday Times
I stared at his hand, and after a beat of silence, grasped it firmly, my eyes twinkling dangerously.
Into their midst he went and a good horse was picked out and lariated in the twinkling of an eye and quickly hoppled and turned loose. Beadle's Boy's Library of Sport, Story and Adventure, Vol. I, No. 1. Adventures of Buffalo Bill from Boyhood to Manhood
He captures the twinkling eyes and mischievous grin brilliantly. The Sun
Glass fell, twinkling in the firelight like stardust dropping from the sky.
I have stood on the summit of Ben Nevis in winter after completing a snow-and-ice climb, and looked down on the twinkling lights of Fort William, with a star-spangled firmament above.
Her mood can change in the twinkling of an eye.
Twinkling sleighs, sporting six pairs of reindeer and a fat-free Santa, decorate even the most modest of houses.
Their flames looked orange and violet against the clear grey blue of the sky where already a few stars were twinkling. The Railway Children
What they ignore is the story hidden behind the twinkling lights.
He returned with a twinkling smile and two large bath towels. Times, Sunday Times
Two pairs of eyes locked together, both sets of eyes twinkling with the deepest of emotions.
There are some bright new southern stars twinkling as our northern lights try to recharge their batteries.
His laconic intellect and twinkling eye will never be forgotten by those who knew him.
For why, the soothfastness of this thing is only in God, and in thee is but a blind abiding of His will, without certainty of one moment, the which is as little or less than a twinkling of an eye. The Cell of Self-Knowledge : seven early English mystical treatises printed by Henry Pepwell in 1521
He took her hand and kissed it, his cobalt eyes twinkling.
The camera pans across a galaxy of stars and planets, novae, and nebulae twinkling in the blackness.
She stared into my eyes for a moment, twinkling with personal satisfaction.
Irish lady, with twinkling eyes and a pernicketty strong will, and a brogue she transferred deliciously into her broken French. A Prisoner in Fairyland
Greywolf" caps the EP with twinkling sci-fi music that gives way to a machinated wheeze, and features the ramblings of a man. The Seattle Times
The mood of the crowd can change in the twinkling of an eye.
So, amid fairytale fire torches and twinkling candles, we were led to our very own reindeer sleigh in the middle of an enchanted snow forest. The Sun
Don't you lose any time about your absolutions, - washing, you know; but just jump into a pair of bags and Wellingtons; clap a top-coat on you, and button it up to the chin, and there you are, ready dressed in the twinkling of a bed-post.
For Jill, in the twinkling of a star, had let fall the enveloping cloak, standing for one second like some exotic bit of statuary in her black billowing satin trousers and infinitesimal coatee over a silver-spangled frothy vest, her great eyes dancing with glee over the face veil. Desert Love
They were at their twinkling best, refusing to let the city sleep.
Look at yourself. Are your eyes twinkling? Is your heart dancing? Are your lips smiling? If yes, then you are truly enjoying your life. RVM
Hoss grinned as she put a finger to her lips, her eyes twinkling.
Stand her in the middle of a darkened Victorian dining room draped with holiday greenery, a Christmas tree twinkling in the corner.
Ryan prods, his eyes twinkling brightly with mischief.
I saw lights twinkling in the little town below us.
He blinked his ebony black eyes, the irises twinkling with delight.
Dew glistened in the grass on the side of the road like little twinkling diamonds in the rough.
His eyes were twinkling with mischief and a playful smile hovered on his lips.
[Twinkling] I shid zay glass o '' arf an '' arf's about yure form. A Bit O' Love
Twinkling chaffer/roarers followed behind them, quickly surpassing the pillars as they raced into the starfield. Jason Stoddard, Strange and Happy » Blog Archive » Eternal Franchise, 15.1 of 31.1
Any number of specters could be floating in the cold, thin air or cavorting among icily twinkling stars.
The mood of the crowd can change in the twinkling of an eye.
The table was laid out fit for a king, all gleaming silver and twinkling crystal.
Twinkling sleighs, sporting six pairs of reindeer and a fat-free Santa, decorate even the most modest of houses.
I open the fridge for some swotty blueberries and there, twinkling at me, is the perfect, central-casting trifle. Times, Sunday Times
All that was left on the street was the shattered remains of a small trophy cup, broken silver shards twinkling in the evening light.
Entering her west London home is like stepping into a seasonal greenhouse, with tables heaped with palm fronds and twinkling candles. Times, Sunday Times
But, in the twinkling of an eye, yesterday becomes history and what matters is what we have just seen. Times, Sunday Times
On a pair of spindly legs a curved metallic sheet is twinkling proudly. Times, Sunday Times
Yet his vague unwillingness to discuss specific strategies suggests that these aspirations will merely remain a twinkling in Mr Simpson's eye.
The spot was a favourite rendezvous for smoochers and joint smokers, as well as those who simply liked to gaze out at twinkling city lights.
Clarke was particularly impressive during his stay, purring along like a smoothly running motor, severe on anything short, quick to the drive and twinkling down the pitch at every opportunity to England's spinners, once dispatching Monty Panesar into the crowd at long-off. England Look to Heavens for Salvation
His awareness spread out into a nearly infinite field of on-or-off voltages, trillions of sparks of light twinkling in total black-ness. THE BROKEN GOD
Alas, his whole estate and life depended on his hatchet; by his hatchet he earned many a fair penny of the best woodmongers or log-merchants among whom he went a-jobbing; for want of his hatchet he was like to starve; and had death but met with him six days after without a hatchet, the grim fiend would have mowed him down in the twinkling of a bedstaff. Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
The boy looked up, his dark blue eyes twinkling with amusement.
I've always liked 3D," declares Martin Scorsese breezily, his brown eyes twinkling from behind the trademark black-rimmed glasses which seem larger and more impressively varifocal in real life. Martin Scorsese: '3D is liberating. Every shot is rethinking cinema'
In a twinkling his rifle was at his shoulder, and through the wild canorous note of the wind, Stane caught his hail. A Mating in the Wilds
Beautiful wreathes made of fragrant greens, lights twinkling in a multitude of colors, ornaments glittering, Christmas stockings … you can choose from a variety of unique designs. 26 Christmas Decorating Ideas for Your Home
There stood Mr. Grunge, brown eyes twinkling with amusement.
Surely, a matter of the leader of the party is too serious for an impetuous decision to be made and later taken back in the twinkling of an eye.
But really, don't waste any time on that link - just glance it over cursorily enough to glean the context in which to fully appreciate this brilliant, twinkling compilation of one-star Amazon reviews of the aforementioned best books ever.
He was in charge of the watch when he noticed a twinkling light some distance away. Times, Sunday Times
He stood with his arms folded and head cocked to one side, twinkling at me.
The little girl with fair hair and twinkling eyes laughed with sheer joy and said it would be her best Christmas ever.
Twin gleams of yellow, twinkling through the trees, the yellow of firelight, candlelight, electric light. THE GREENSTONE GRAIL: THE SANGREAL TRILOGY ONE
They were beautiful, twinkling in the dark sky above.
He was a tallish man with rustic brown hair and twinkling blue eyes.
We could see the lights on the distant boats twinkling.
He held his pale, grubby hand out towards Janet with two twinkling things in it. CHARMED LIFE
Mr. Bintrey, on the other hand, a cautious man, with twinkling beads of eyes in a large overhanging bald head, who inwardly but intensely enjoyed the comicality of openness of speech, or hand, or heart. No Thoroughfare
The set, in an atmospheric walled garden of Queens College, is transformed into a fantastic fairyland of sparkling glass raindrops, twinkling lights and looming plantlife.
The concept of fashion has sometimes been like a star twinkling in the remote distance and sometime been so whimsical(Sentence dictionary), seemingly within touch but without a handle.
Just the idea of twinkling my toes in the sand puts a smile on my face.
This Bach is not as reverently worshiped, it is adored with coyness, sparkle, and a twinkling eye.
The famous Gallowglass Ceili Band will provide the music with some lively tunes to get the toes twinkling.
By nightfall, several dozen boats will be out on the lake with their lanterns twinkling in the velvet darkness.
The event was scheduled after nightfall because the designer wanted dark skies over the glass ceiling in the Grand Palais – all the better to show off his neon-outlined set, complete with perspex street lights and twinkling black floor. Statue of Coco sets scene for Chanel show
Yet all was not powder snow twinkling in a rosy sunrise, and morale continued at a low ebb.
Gone is the twinkling, airy melody of the original, replaced by a menacing, sparse, grungey arrangement. The Sun
I did what you did not do -- what you are not doing even now; I put two and two together in the twinkling of a bedstaff. The Grafters
Bizarrely, to my left, the sky was still midnight blue and twinkling with stars.
His golden hair looked much like the stars twinkling in the night sky.
Richard is a short man with leathered skin, twinkling eyes and a perpetual ax to grind.
He knew her feet had been born to easy paths and sunny lands, strangers to the moccasined pain of the North, unkissed by the chill lips of the frost, and he watched and marveled at them twinkling ever through the weary day. THE WISDOM OF THE TRAIL
Look at yourself. Are your eyes twinkling? Is your heart dancing? Are your lips smiling? If yes, then you are truly enjoying your life. RVM
Once they were inside, Elizabeth released Darcy's arm and turned to him, eyes twinkling with mischief.
That's fantastic . He's vanished in the twinkling of an eye.
Far-twinkling faint through dim, immeasured depths, The Feast of the Virgins and Other Poems
The sky began to redden as evening drew closer, gradually fading to black, the clouds massed above warning of bad weather to come and blocked out the full moon and twinkling stars.
The tune set our toes twinkling.
I could see the lights from the town twinkling in the distance.
Hojun Lee's Arirang Fantasie had a hiker traversing Korea's most famous mountain peak in music perhaps a little too sweetly Westernized with consonant harmonies and twinkling piano arpeggios in a manner equivalent to Thomas Kinkade's idyllic paintings. Rodney Punt: Bridges to Somewhere: Master Chorale Embraces Worlds in Los Angeles
She looks at Ryan, her brown eyes twinkling with amusement.
One of the men gave a harsh laugh, his eyes twinkling with unspoken amusement.
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The family have turned the garden into a winter wonderland where trees and shrubs are smothered with twinkling white lights. The Sun
Their flames looked orange and violet against the clear grey blue of the sky where already a few stars were twinkling. The Railway Children
South of this chasm lies the twinkling fairyland that is gastronomic Manhattan, from Jean Georges to Nobu.
So, amid fairytale fire torches and twinkling candles, we were led to our very own reindeer sleigh in the middle of an enchanted snow forest. The Sun
The street slept in darkness, aside from the occasional twinkling of lights from two or three windows.
The older pictures had MaryAnn smiling radiantly, teeth shining and eyes scrunched together twinkling with delight.
That's right, Burns, take off my last summer coat," he added, still in a whisper to me as the Burns parent struggled out of the unendurable gift garment and thus gave a signal that whipped off every coat on the left side of the walk in the twinkling of an eye, to the evident distress of the tightly girted and uncomfortable but more formal feminine members of the Settlement contingent. The Heart's Kingdom
We look up into the night sky over twinkling Manhattan. The Sun
Except for the lovely outdoor night scene for Juliet's funeral, with its twinkling stars, some updating might be good.
The rich, dark, walnut surface gleamed like glass, the china and silver twinkling in the light cast from two huge candelabra.
Few players have such twinkling and quick feet and are balanced enough to switch the ball quickly between them.
Of the gradual development of such mastery of natural detail, a veritable counterfeit of nature, the veritable rhythmus of the runner, for example -- twinkling heel and ivory shoulder -- we have hints and traces in the historians of art. Greek Studies: a Series of Essays
The light gradually faded out of the cavern, leaving only shards of broken ice twinkling dimly in the darkness.
Others with a different signal seem to be blinking, twinkling.
Glass shapes, baubles and coloured beads all hung from the ivy, twinkling in the sun's rays.
Sam, rising to his feet, his eyes twinkling and his mask of humor on again; "sees this masked springal" -- the Hon. A Knight of the Cumberland
Marlo shrugged away, trying to mask his smile with a scowl, which only resulted in a tight-lipped frown, eyes twinkling.
The camera pans across a galaxy of stars and planets, novae, and nebulae twinkling in the blackness.
The stage was like an enchanted garden with the musicians surrounded by pink twinkling trees and glittering silver statues. Times, Sunday Times
She raised her eyebrows questioningly, her eyes twinkling mischievously.
His worn face held the slightest ghost of a smile as he stared down at her with twinkling eyes.
Everyone stared, or whispered, or leaned craning this way and that to watch the twinkling glass toes of the kingly saint. CHARMED LIFE
I stared at the stars, twinkling white against a blue-black night sky.
Aunt Margaret came out of the tailor shop just moments later, her eyes twinkling with some sort of secret knowledge.
Devlin scanned the valley below him, enjoying the twinkling of the city's lights.
By nightfall, several dozen boats will be out on the lake with their lanterns twinkling in the velvet darkness.
I saw all of biblical history in the twinkling of an eye.
Pipes parp in a some distorted guitar which builds up alongside a twinkling xylophone amid the tones of meandering strings.
The stars were twinkling incandescently in the vast expanse of inky black sky overhead, a sight that we could rarely witness in the city.
She looks at Jonnie, with eyes twinkling in amusement.
When the wash receded they followed it with an incredibly rapid twinkling of little legs; and when again the wave rushed, shoreward, _scuttle, scuttle, scuttle_ went they, keeping always just at the edge of the water. The Gray Dawn
What snatches of blue sky she could see were deepening from azure to cobalt and she thought she saw the first star twinkling already.
‘I'll be looking forward to it,’ she replied, her ice blue eyes twinkling with amusement.
Everyone stared, or whispered, or leaned craning this way and that to watch the twinkling glass toes of the kingly saint. CHARMED LIFE
The tavern owner was a tall and thin man with a misleadingly kind face and twinkling green eyes.
Snapping drum, twinkling stars, woozy guitar, and woozier vocals wobble their way towards a yawning great black hole at the worst time. Nothing But Green Lights
Lights and sounds - your baby will enjoy the twinkling lights and quiet melodies that are activated by pressing or squeezing a toy.
The room was filled with hothouse flowers, twinkling electric lights, gilded candelabra, potted palms and crystal and ormolu chandeliers hung with pink roses and asparagus vines. The Bradley-Martin Ball | Edwardian Promenade
So, amid fairytale fire torches and twinkling candles, we were led to our very own reindeer sleigh in the middle of an enchanted snow forest. The Sun
‘No prob’, she replied, her green eyes twinkling with amusement.
He stopped a foot away and bent into a bow to look down at her, smooth eyes twinkling.
His eyes were twinkling with mischief and a playful smile hovered on his lips.
The street slept in darkness, aside from the occasional twinkling of lights from two or three windows.
The family have turned the garden into a winter wonderland where trees and shrubs are smothered with twinkling white lights. The Sun
a kind of penurious god, very niggardly of his opportunities: he must be watched like a hard-hearted treasurer; for he bolts out on the sudden, and, if you take him not in the nick, he vanishes in a twinkling. The works of John Dryden, $c now first collected in eighteen volumes. $p Volume 06
There we were in the desert of Rajasthan, sitting on a castle rampart, just us and a myriad stars twinkling furiously.
Most of them were watching me with a twinkling amusement in their eyes.
Milchester Abbey is a gray, quadrangular pile, deep-set in rich woody country, and twinkling with triple rows of quaint windows, every one of which seemed alight as we drove up just in time to dress for dinner.
He was sitting in the middle of the pavement, with his twinkling eyes staring at me expectantly.
She looks at Ryan, her brown eyes twinkling with amusement.
A plump, rounded moon settled alongside the twinkling lights and gleamed observantly from its position in the sky.
Egypt to the Simpkinsville cemetery, and to be transported the entire distance in a twinkling by the apparition of a dreaded woman bearing down upon one is what might be called a jolting experience. In Simpkinsville : character tales,
Glass shapes, baubles and coloured beads all hung from the ivy, twinkling in the sun's rays.
The boy looked up, his dark blue eyes twinkling with amusement.
He had a sound belief in astrology, the stars being the twinkling penumbra of his incandescent belief in the ‘free market,’ with whose motions it was blasphemous to tamper.
Ah, the romance of twinkling lights in the distance.
The tree would be dressed in a sea of twinkling white lights - nothing else save for some sort of interesting piece of art work on the top bought from some little bijou art shop in Morocco.
The crisp backbeat and twinkling xylophones remind one of a child's playroom, with toys scattered and overturned, and the sun building shadows in their midst.
'the scuft of the neck,' ran him out to the door in a twinkling. The History of David Grieve
His persona there is what I suppose you would call roguish, impish, twinkling or some similarly emetic term and he simply cannot afford to get Private Eye involved in anything remotely controversial or interesting because of the danger that his mainstream audience would drop him as fast as Gerald Ratner's customers dropped him if they found out that he was mixed in in any real world nastiness like proper investigative journalism. Iain Dale's Diary
Lisa leaned forward eagerly, her eyes twinkling with amusement.
He arrived in central lobby at one, on the dot, twinkling and cherubic, and amazingly upright and steady.
However, walking in the store today, with all the lights twinkling and everything looking rather bright, gave me a warm, smiley feeling inside.
Its midnight ceiling showed the Ku nebula with its twinkling gold sparks swimming within fat undulating jade and sapphire nimbi. The Dreaming Void
The sky was filled with all sorts of red and orange mixture and soon the sky was filled with puffy soft clouds and twinkling stars.
They didn't have the numbers, I hey didn't have the weight, and they were spent, man and beast — but they had the time and the place to perfection, and in a twinkling the Khalsa charge was a struggling confusion of rearing beasts and falling riders and flashing steel as the Lights tore into its heart and the sowar lancers raked across its front. 36 Flashman and the Mountain of Light
See how we trifle! but one can't pass one's youth too amusingly for one must grow old, and that in England; two most serious circumstances, either of which makes people gray in the twinkling of a bedstaff; for know you there is not a country upon earth where there are so many old fools and so few young ones. The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 1
A plump, rounded moon settled alongside the twinkling lights and gleamed observently from its position in the sky.
It is composed in fluent, almost chatty couplets, with marvellous evocations of the deserted Venetian lido and twinkling lagoon: 'I love all waste / And solitary places; where we taste / The pleasure of believing what we see / Is boundless, as we wish our souls to be.'
His expression relaxed and he bowed, his blue eyes twinkling. Much Ado About Marriage
He returned with a twinkling smile and two large bath towels. Times, Sunday Times
Carefully unwrapping it, she found the hint of dull gold and burnished it on her shirt, the small ruby at the end of the key twinkling in the yellow sunlight.
A galaxy of twinkling stars matched the thousands of sparkling city lights.
A galaxy of twinkling stars matched the thousands of sparkling city lights.
The outside of the mansion of which the party was being held is a gigantic garden filled with topiary animals of all kinds, elegant fountains, and colorful paper lanterns and twinkling lights.
Gravel pathways winding over humps in the landscape, idyllic wooden bridges crossing twinkling streams here and there, all clothed in colourful vegetation.
In one gallery (to the twinkling sounds of a music box), she has projected overlapping videos of spiraling lights and sheep grazing in grassy meadows across layers of hanging diaphanous white fabric. Taking Senses to the Extreme
The concept of fashion has sometimes been like a star twinkling in the remote distance and sometime been so whimsical, seemingly within touch but without a handle.
Following the twinkling r flection of gravel and tire ruts, she ran a hundred yards and left the can in the middle of the road. Kate
The stars were twinkling in the night sky and a full moon gazed down on this desolate place waiting to become another new neighborhood.
He's sitting there, one eyebrow raised, his beautiful eyes twinkling with amusement.
The street slept in darkness, aside from the occasional twinkling of lights from two or three windows.
‘Look’, he said, his blue eyes twinkling with amusement.
One of the most eyecatching outdoor displays at the fair is a small herd of reindeer - their outlines picked out in twinkling white bulbs - whose heads move from side to side as they forage for food in the snow.
Small candles were tactically nestled amongst the branches to be lit at night, representing the twinkling stars of the heavens.

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