twinkle

Example Sentences

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"You're not meant to be laughing, but you can see all your mates trying to make you laugh, and they've got that twinkle in their eye," she says.

From BBC • Mar. 27, 2026

Their goal was to understand how the pulsar's radio signal appears to "twinkle" as it travels through clouds of gas on its way to Earth.

From Science Daily • Jan. 6, 2026

But as “Starring Dick Van Dyke” establishes, the agile song-and-dance man with a perpetual twinkle in his eye is much more than that.

From Salon • Dec. 13, 2025

Netflix must have a fairly big budget for twinkle lights.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 3, 2025

A world where Gram could fix anything with a twinkle of her eye.

From "How to Disappear Completely" by Ali Standish