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The audience rehashed its hunches, they circled potential suspects, they stared at a static image of a horrific crime scene, awash in twinkling moonlight.

From Slate ● Feb. 23, 2026

He used the giant telescope to capture the twinkling of Sirius, the brightest star in the night sky.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 17, 2026

Through the cockpit, the city glowed on the horizon, a strip of twinkling lights severing the night sky from the dark Potomac river.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 14, 2026

The Christmas lights are still twinkling in the town, but several bars closed their doors out of respect.

From Barron's ● Jan. 1, 2026

That evening, despite the persistent pain in his leg, Roosevelt enjoyed watching the sunset and the stars twinkling in the dark sky while waiting for Antonio Pareci and Luiz Correia to return.

From "Death on the River of Doubt" by Samantha Seiple

"It quickly became clear to me that mutability has these twinklings of joy, sometimes ecstasy, which comes through in the poems, I think."

From The Guardian ● Jan. 27, 2011

The mobility of it, its expressive twinklings and winkings, and the intercommunications between the eye, the ear, and it, were of the oddest and swiftest.

From Graded Lessons in English An Elementary English Grammar Consisting of One Hundred Practical Lessons, Carefully Graded and Adapted to the Class-Room by Alonzo Reed

Still later, infinitesimal twinklings on the ground at the horizon.

From The Invaders by Murray Leinster

It is also observable, that those bright scintillations neer the Horizon, are not by much so quick and sudden in their consecutions of one another, as the nimbler twinklings of Stars neerer the Zenith.

From Micrographia Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon by Robert Hooke

And Odysseus gazed at the twinklings of the feet, and marvelled in spirit.

From The Odyssey Done into English prose by Andrew Lang