How To Use Wink In A Sentence

A great deal of the nudge-nudge wink-wink routine by the young upwardly mobile male executives was the usual response to her presence.
So I cringe when a local newsperson shoves a microphone in the face of some young 95-pound twink (Straight Translation: a twink is a skinny homosexual with a lot of moxie). Max Mutchnick: Where Is My Martin Luther Queen?
It was almost like my old dad was winking at me to help me notice him.
Or better if you know how to fix it ... * wink wink** nudge nudge* Burnkryten Diary Entry
Winky luved tu drinking frum deh water fawsitt…. she liking hur wadder fresh…it wuz a sinky-drinky fur deh winky-binky. Like the new bowl. - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?

He said the unsayable and the unthinkable but with a twinkle. Times, Sunday Times
The look should be tough, not twinkly, so apply dark colours in a slapdash way. Times, Sunday Times
He told her with a wink as he gestured for her to come inside.
He winks out of the corner of his eye at me and says, 'Your old daddy is tough isn't he?' and shows me the end of his thumb calloused and hard as the knurl of white oak; only fire could clean it to the original skin. Confessions of Boyhood
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.
James would only wink at him, a secretive smile gracing his handsome features…
Her eyes missed nothing; her dainty close-set ears heard all -- the short, dry note of a chewink, the sweet, wholesome song of the cardinal, the thrilling cries of native jays and woodpeckers, the heavenly outpoured melody of the Florida wren, perched on some tiptop stem, throat swelling under the long, delicate, upturned bill. The Firing Line
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
Here is my compile command "cc - Wall - lncurses - o twinkle twinkle. c" I am using fedora 12. 'env' shows that TERM = linux. LinuxQuestions.org
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.
Close against them and overpeering their tops were hollyhocks and dahlias; against these stood at lesser height sweet peas, asters, zinnias, coreopsis and others of like stature; in front of these were poppies for summer, marigolds for autumn; beneath these again were verbenas, candytuft -- all this is sketched from memory, and I recall the winsome effect rather than species and names; and still below nestled portulaca and periwinkle. The Amateur Garden
Such winkingly ostentatious nastiness and Mr. Pollock's habit of telegraphing violence rather than lingering over it make this violent book surprisingly easy to read and digest. The Comic-Grotesque Goes North
When you hear the term hacking, or hackathon, the first image that probably comes to mind is a handful of programmers staying up all night long, fueled by Mountain Dew and Twinkies, hacking away on laptops at arcane code. The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
Witty and warm with a mischievous twinkle in his eye. The Sun
The show cloaks itself in wholesome, old-fashioned japery with its broad misunderstandings ("I said ghosts, not goats!") and knowing winks at Hi-de-Hi! and Frank Spencer, and the way Miranda's mother (Patricia Hodge) flits in and out as if through a time portal to a 1950s Whitehall farce. Rewind TV: Miranda; The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret; Accused: Willy's Story; Garrow's Law
It's in all its glory and ready to go back indoors for the tinsel and twinkling lights. The Sun
She rubbed my arm comfortingly with a small twinkle of mischief that I had seen somewhere else.
Their faces light up and eyes twinkle as if there's a current of electricity swirling inside them.
Here the interior is inlaid with millions of beautiful shells, scallops, paloudres, clams, periwinkles, mussels, oysters and rogans.
Soft flecks of light winked off the frames of his gold-rimmed glasses and the heavy gold ring in his left ear.
For instance, layer a crewneck periwinkle short-sleeved t-shirt over my long sleeve grey heather t , allowing the bottom of the grey heather to extend below the hem of the periwinkle to create an easy, layered look. Red Room: Deborah Lindquist: Bring Your Summer Wardrobe into Fall -- the Green Way
On his right hand he wore a signet ring with a diamond that winked out a message in morse: I'm rich. SNOWLINE
In 1540 he had licence to impark the Lyveden estate in Aldwinkle St. Peter's parish, where the "New The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner
If you wink enough nobody will notice your answerless gestures, dog-gone-it! Beat 360° 10/3/08
He winked at her and led her to a metal post sticking out of the ground.
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
Terry rolled his eyes, but the green orbs twinkled with amusement.
P. S: Happy belated birthday to Sub, congrats on passing your driving test, you know what to do next (* wink wink*). Babycartercl Diary Entry
And now the engineer pulled out the throttle-valve to make up for lost time, and the clatter of the train faded into a distant roar, and its lights began to twinkle into indistinctness.
He could see that his girlfriend had been crying even though she tried to wink her tears away.
By 1946, Woodhouse contends, the political objectives of all factions were clear to all, and there was no basis on which to argue that EAM's supporters were 'hoodwinked'. back Arms and the Woman: Just Warriors and Greek Feminist Identity
The committee winkled out the unqualified candidates
No flower born in the summertime was missing from it, not even the flower of the broom, the violet, the periwinkle, or any yellow, indigo, or white flower.
Maybe you suffer from insomnia and barely sleep a wink every night.
Never mind me, I don't suppose the kids in the next field, nay the next village, got a wink of sleep all weekend.
Critics of fish farming are furious at what they consider to be an attempt to hoodwink the public.
Winkielman pointed out that this "beauty in averageness" could apply to things like the silhouette of a car, a watch, as well as to people. Beauty is Only Brain Deep | Impact Lab
He looked up suddenly and winked. Bomber
An nod is as good as a wink to a blind horse.
He also tips a wink to counterparts in the brewing trade from centuries ago.
The schizoid devours the eyewinker may be caused by thinking obstacle, also may be the method that a kind of impulsive act perhaps considers to serve as the suicide with this.
In the twinkle of an eye two powerful Quadi followed the dispensator, and, seizing Chilo by the remnant of his hair, tied his own rags around his neck and dragged him to the prison. Quo Vadis: a narrative of the time of Nero
Rip Van Winkle, a kindly, lazy, henpecked man, set out for a remote part of the Catskill Mountains.
Perhaps it would be a little shore crab that betrayed itself by scuffling down amongst the corallite or sea-weed, perhaps a little fierce-looking bristly fish, which shot under a ledge of the rock all amongst the limpets, acorn barnacles, or the thousands of yellow and brown and striped snaily fellows that crawled about in company with the periwinkles and pelican's feet. Devon Boys A Tale of the North Shore
These recordings are museum pieces, pulled up from the sticky earth, their crazy-diamond shine still winking through the clay after thirty years
She's got a mischievous sense of humour and a twinkle in her eye. The Sun
The periwinkle in turn is preyed upon by blue crabs and diamondback terrapins.
Witty and warm with a mischievous twinkle in his eye. The Sun
The flyingfish are flickering in the orange glow, and one flies close and winks at me before diving below the surface again. First Snakes, Now This? « Looking for Roots
The combination of intellectual integrity and a twinkle in the eye inspired affection as well as respect. Times, Sunday Times
I found his profile and "winked" at him because I thought he was cute. Katress Diary Entry
Someone hoodwinked my eyes and let me guess who she was.
They twinkled bright in the dark sky, beautiful and old and they made her unimportant.
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
Warne is closer to Steve's twin, Mark, and he has not always agreed with the captain - but you will not winkle an ounce of dissent out of him.
We've bloodied noses and bit off ears with the best of them, before even the US was a twinkle in someone's eye.
A strong smell of disinfectant was hanging in the air, and fruit machines were winking sinisterly in semi-darkness.
I doubt we'll get any rain out of it, but I like to listen to Rip Van Winkle and the boys playing ninepins all the same.
Daisies have snowed all over the Campagna, -- periwinkles star the grass, -- crocuses and anemones impurple the spaces between the rows of springing grain along the still brown slopes. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 24, October, 1859
She looked into his gorgeous, blue eyes that had a dull twinkle in them.
Ai jus needz anutter dwink tu seetel mai nervs.*getz dwink an enhalez it,chokes-coffs* Fanx ai needit dat BACK UP BACK UP!!! - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
Voices came from the battlements, and a twinkle of steel.
In their urge to smirk and wink, they make it impossible for the profundity of any work in the show to shine through. Times, Sunday Times
The stars twinkled brightly in the night sky above her head.
Her hair is freshly set in loose curls and her green eyes twinkle behind spectacles. The Sun
In the map room we would have been moving along as an effortless winking of beaded lights. Times, Sunday Times
The busty waitress serving them winked flirtatiously at Spike, bending in just the right way to show off her trim waist and ample bosom.
If she was doing it "winkingly" how can we ever know when she's not "winking"? New Hillary Ad: "A Nation At War"
Circles ringed and shadowed them, but still they twinkled brightly.
Dan gave her a salute and a wink, and they all turned their attention back to the two left in the ring.
Think of the thousands and millions that are being demoralized by games of chance, by marbles -- when they play for keeps -- by billiards and croquet, by fox and geese, authors, halma, tiddledywinks and pigs in clover. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Volume VIII. Interviews
Feeling disconnected in a chattering city of twinkling lights. Times, Sunday Times
These gases scatter light from the cosmic microwave background radiation as it passes through the clusters, similar to the way Earth's atmosphere can scatter starlight, making some stars twinkle.
They were amazed at the bright twinkling pattern of starlight as it shone through the window.
He is approached by a pair of twin preppies from Connecticut, Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss (both played by actor Armie Hammer) - two privileged types who row crew and have the Olympics in their sites. Marshall Fine: Movie review: The Social Network
With a metafictional wink and a nod from Dew, the narrator comments, "In fact, not until the second decade of the twenty-first century would Sputnik's connection to the demise of Desert Rose dinnerware . . . be noted and remarked upon in a novel written late in the career of one of those three-named women writers who initially cropped up in the 1980s. Book World: 'Being Polite to Hitler' rounds out profile of an American family
I can still see him, just, brake lights winking as he catches up with a line of cars ahead.
Garden, who attracts considerable notice by the cry of -- Come buy my live shrimps and pierriwinkles -- buy my wink, wink, wink; these, however, are exceptions to those previously mentioned, as they have good voices, and deliver themselves to some tune; but to the former may be added the itinerant collector of old clothes, who continually annoys you with -- Clow; clow sale. Real Life In London, Volumes I. and II. Or, The Rambles And Adventures Of Bob Tallyho, Esq., And His Cousin, The Hon. Tom Dashall, Through The Metropolis; Exhibiting A Living Picture Of Fashionable Characters, Manners, And Amusements In High And Low Life
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
Whether it's your first game or your last one or a game of table tennis or tiddlywinks, you want to win.
Her eyes, a startling blue-gray danced and twinkled in the light streaming in from tall, elegant windows framed with green marble columns topped by gold-painted fluting.
Even more likely, it could be deliberate misdirection, a Nabokovian wink the author shares with the reader perspicacious enough to call his bluff.
Recently such a result in Ivory Coast led to a civil war before Laurent Gbagbo could be winkled out of the presidential palace at the end of a gun barrel. The Real Legacy of Nelson Mandela
The stars and planets that merrily twinkle, light years away, have inspired song lyrics and poems, become pivotal symbols in religion and have provided an eternal need for man to explore the concept of infinity.
He grinned cheekily at her, giving her yet another wink before he rolled off the bed, coming up to stand directly in front of her, not even a whole inch separating them this time.
At the base of a tree, for example, you might have better luck with wood chips or shade-loving ornamental plants like ivy, periwinkle, or pachysandra.
Wink looked at the chart and at their position listed as latitude and longitude in a continuous readout on his PTID. FLASH POINT
After a few minutes I saw a green light winking languorously at me, and realised that his main computer was on sleep mode.
A devious grin crossed his face as his clear grey eyes twinkled with amusement.
All you need to know is how to spot the nudges and winks. Times, Sunday Times
Wink stared at the aim point on his FLIR display on the PTID waiting for the impact of their huge bomb. FLASH POINT
A lot of tourists bought Bullwinkle cels and Rocky dolls there, unaware the guy with the handlebar mustache who was taking their money was Jay Ward.
So all week long as we've eaten a scoop here and there, the wink-nudge joke has been "mmf...seeds in...pft". A Tale of Two Sorbets
We board a 21-passenger white minibus, the price of emissions, at the intersection of Interstate 10 and Indian Avenue, and sit back as Ken Huskey aka White Horse, a 40-year veteran in the energy industry, takes the wheel and the mic, delivering in best AM DJ voice a dazzling non-stop physics-laden eclogue on the 300-hundred-foot-high spears with periwinkles on top, and their awesome powers. Richard Bangs: How Green Is My Valley?
Winkleman is showing significant art, not formalist poetry or provincialist landscapes. Hickey remarks vanish (revised)
As she mechanically began spooning hot globules of oatmeal into her mouth, she caught sight of Periwinkle and another teacher walk in through the Arts Wing hallway.
If I were going to a place where a hard day is one game of tiddlywinks instead of two, I wouldn't be afraid either.
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.
I like Obama because he uses words like "hoodwink" and "bamboozle" in political speeches. Obama On Veep Talk: Clintons Are Trying To "Hoodwink" You
What benefits the willow tree that its bark should contain salicylic acid; or the foxglove, digitalis; the periwinkle, vincristine; or the poppy, opiates?
The husky voice, the delivery, the winking humor, and the sly references to acting conventions gone by all suggested a bona-fide artiste, not just a painted gorgon.
Uncle John winked at me across the table.
Dryfesdale, or the pilniewinks and thumbikins shall wrench it out of her finger joints!” The Abbot
He winked an eye at his companion.
He had a wry sense of humour and a twinkle in his eye. Times, Sunday Times
A few stars twinkled through the light dark clouds.
Jackson's Submission Fighting, run by top coaches Greg Jackson and Mike Winkeljohn out of Albuquerque, N.M., has trained UFC champions such as Georges St-Pierre and Rashad Evans and frontline contenders in nearly every major weight class. Has UFC Found Its Transcendent Star?
The casual wink from you, the cheery salute from your buddy, the you-rascal-you smiles of recognition from your workmates.
Cabinet advice, says Hide, showed the public had been hoodwinked into investing in a project that made billions for a Hollywood studio.
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.
It seems as though they are subtly encouraging people to give more installments of less money * wink wink*. Report: Nearly 250,000 Donors Give To Obama Campaign
To be sure, the laws against recusants were not uniformly enforced; papistry in favourites and friends of the king was winked at, and the rich noblemen, who were able to pay fines, did not suffer much. English Travellers of the Renaissance
The thrasher, or red thrush, sneaks and skulks like a culprit, hiding in the densest alders; the catbird is a coquette and a flirt, as well as a sort of female Paul Pry; and the chewink shows his inhospitality by espying your movements like a detective. Bird Stories from Burroughs Sketches of Bird Life Taken from the Works of John Burroughs
The Inn was all aglow with lights twinkling from its many stories, a beacon on the hill above Freeport.
Six of the turrets swiveled up to face it, and a person with sharp eyes or a ship with sharp sensors would notice tiny red lights winking on and off around the turrets.
The stars serenely encased the green-and-brown planet in their milky twinkle, lighting up all the oceans with a crystal glow, a beautiful shine.
All this was stamped on a background of indigo blue dotted with white as the stars winked at us from far away.
The maker of the breaching axes is Daniel Winkler who, for twenty years or more has been pre-eminent in the re-creation of frontier cutlery. More On Axes
You have once again hoodwinked me into risking my life in one of those damnable contraptions!
A short, vigorously cheerful woman in a twinkling red dress walked about, greeting each person.
Fabulous play on the edge of the Benfica area, hoodwinking Luisao with a delicious stepover and trying to slide the ball in between Artur's legs. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
Anyhow there were the peasants, men and women, boys and young maidens, toiling and swinking; some hoeing between the vine-rows, some bearing baskets of dung up the steep slopes, some in one way, some in another, labouring for the fruit they should never eat, and the wine they should never drink. A Dream of John Ball and a King's Lesson
The place was a garden, somewhat gone to waste, with a gravel drive running round a great circle of periwinkles with a spotted aucuba in the middle. The Carbonels
Her hair is freshly set in loose curls and her green eyes twinkle behind spectacles. The Sun
With the outbreak of World War I in 1914, Winkler enlisted in the Austrian army.
I saw lights twinkling in the little town below us.
Charity looked at her in genuine alarm and was rewarded with a wink that made her revise her opinion of her cousin slightly upwards.
They chew hasheesh; cut themselves with poisoned creases; swing their hammock in the boughs of the Bohon Upas; taste every poison; buy every secret; at Naples, they put St. Januarius blood in an alembic; they saw a hole into the head of the winking Virgin, to know why she winks; measure with an English footrule every cell of the Inquisition, every Turkish caaba, every Holy of holies; translate and send to Bentley the arcanum bribed and bullied away from shuddering Bramins; and measure their own strength by the terror they cause. VIII. English Traits. Character
Meriam winked at me, and I went over to slosh some more Old Grandad into my glass. A RODENT OF DOUBT
People can't get a wink of sleep. The Sun
Aquamarine is the new lime green, coral is the new taupe, dusty rose is the new periwinkle, shell is the new cream.
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
They twinkle in all directions clean on out of sight, these flash pictures of the dreamy doll faces of the workmen.
One of the great highlights of working on the show has been working with Henry Winkler.
At its feet tea lights twinkle in tiny bird cages. Times, Sunday Times
When it was finally belching smoke to his satisfaction, he looked at me, and in his eye was what I can only describe as a rueful twinkle. The Beekeeper's Apprentice
The combination of intellectual integrity and a twinkle in the eye inspired affection as well as respect. Times, Sunday Times
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
We never tired of the stunning view, and at night the sky was full of stars, the lights twinkled from houses dotted among the trees and olive groves and the only sound was the strange hoot of the little Scops owls.
Government critics were winkled out of their positions of influence.
Now the Protestant family is like a bundle of refuse shingles, when withed up together, (which it never was and never will be to all etarnity) no great of a bundle arter all, you might take it up under one arm, and walk off with it without winkin. The Clockmaker — or, the Sayings and Doings of Samuel Slick, of Slickville
In between the shows, the comic interludes were performed to keep the audience in good spirits with twinkle-footed clowns.
The foreshore is the Queen's, but some sensible arrangement could be made about the driftwood, plastic bottles, condoms and winkles found there. The Guardian World News
It's in all its glory and ready to go back indoors for the tinsel and twinkling lights. The Sun
Everything could be done by a nod and a wink.
So now, when you see him, just wink or say flat out "salut"...et pour le bouton, put some toothpaste on it, it will help dry it. ohhhh, and were you referencing "la vie des autres" ? My weekend with Downstairs Guy
‘She seems very keen,’ Neil says and winks at me.
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
He winked at me and I wanted to knock out a few teeth in that smug smile he flashed at me.
Together with Germanist Sally Winkle, he guided me in my research and read the manuscript for historical accuracy. Stones from the River
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.
Dit wil voorkom asof hierdie tsotsi-bendes met die afbrand van drankwinkels soveel drank buitgemaak en verober het dat dit hul verantwoordelikheidsgrense (inhibisies) totaal verwyder het, sodat geweld, anargie en chaos verder hoogty gevier het. 'I Saw a Nightmare …' Doing Violence to Memory: The Soweto Uprising, June 16, 1976
Her blond ringlets were piled high up on her head, and winking atop her hairdo was a rhinestone tiara. A Dollar Short
Draco leaned his bare back carefully against the rough bark of the beech tree staring up at the moon and the brilliant twinkling stars.
Draw a little closer, and you can see daylight winking through.
He could have passed for an officer of the navy, with his young, strong features, floppy dark hair and twinkling eyes.
It's a twinkle and a sparkle that has left the world. Times, Sunday Times
She punctuated the point by kissing him on the cheek and giving him a slow wink.
The stage was like an enchanted garden with the musicians surrounded by pink twinkling trees and glittering silver statues. Times, Sunday Times
I called for small-beer, the master tipped the wink, and the servant brought me a brimmer of October. The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886
The technical term is "scintillation," connoting minimal signification, the minutest re-marking that makes a wink of a photon. 'Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star' as an Ambient Poem; a Study of a Dialectical Image; with Some Remarks on Coleridge and Wordsworth
At night, lights twinkle in distant villages across the valleys.
In my notebook I described it as a ‘carnival concourse’ offering everything from turkey sausages to gyros to fried twinkes.
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
Does anyone here know Rip Van Winkle?
He captures the twinkling eyes and mischievous grin brilliantly. The Sun
In each case, I specified with a conspiratorial wink, the flowers should be accompanied by a card bearing the A CONVICTION OF GUILT
Marry ofter winks at the spelling mistakes in her homework.
Glass fell, twinkling in the firelight like stardust dropping from the sky.
The fire in his eyes flared and with a single hand he flipped the table halfway across the room, the teapot and cups shattering in a twinkle of light.
From March to June we see an incredible carpet of flowers in the woods (sowbreads, periwinkles, anemones and many others).
I have been wanting to make this too, and just don't have time this week -- I actually almost bought some in the store but couldn't bring myself to do it -- those twinkie-like thingies just looked too gross. Roasted Strawberry Shortcakes With Vanilla Scented Biscuits
The entire sport is run on a nod and a wink and no one seems prepared to do anything about it. Times, Sunday Times
Kevin held his look of innocence, while his eyes danced and twinkled, laughing at her.
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.
It snows onto a snowman and a Christmas tree while Santa flies overhead and the aforementioned bulbs twinkle merrily.
They now hope to break world records for playing tiddlywinks and for ‘winking’ a mile in the fastest time.
Her mood can change in the twinkling of an eye.
My facial expression and a wink says it all for me.
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
All this is done with a wink and a smile, lots of witty one-liners and a backdrop of upbeat music.
What they ignore is the story hidden behind the twinkling lights.
Next comes the lighting rig: spotlights, blinkers, winkers, everything but lasers, blazing like Luna Park.
He politely excuses himself, explaining that he hasn't slept a wink in the past two days.
The security services will pretty well go to any lengths to winkle out information.
Upon our first entering Sir ROGER winked to me, and pointed at something that stood behind the door, which, upon looking that way I found to be an old broomstaff. The Coverley Papers
This The Sun King comprehensively demolishes by setting out in extenso the process, which those of us unwilling to be hoodwinked have understood from the outset, by which it is merely the means of creating a constitution that has been changed, not the constitution itself: In Hubris, Veritas
Wearing black trousers and a grey polo shirt, he is still handsome with shoulder-length silvery hair and a twinkle in the eye.
He returned with a twinkling smile and two large bath towels. Times, Sunday Times

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