twinkling

"The sky here has always been twinkling like this," 28-year-old Dolker says.

From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026

A canopy of candy-colored paper lanterns and twinkling lights hangs over a long dining table opposite the restaurant.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026

She knew she’d chosen well during her first gig in Chicago, when she stepped out onto her skyscraper balcony and saw the city lights twinkling around her.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 27, 2026

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

Like the strangers on the Avenue, they became, in the twinkling of an eye, unutterably different and fantastically present.

From "The Fire Next Time" by James Baldwin

"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

At the next table another crimson match went off, leaving, as it died down fumily, the yellow twinklings of the garden a bilious green.

From The Debit Account by Oliver [pseud.] Onions

Carnival in an ordinary little Italian town seems, no doubt, commonplace enough to those who have seen its glories in Rome—the crowded Corso, the rush of the maddened horses, the firefly twinklings of the Maccoletti.

From Stray Studies from England and Italy by John Richard Greene

Outspread translucent fins Flute, fold, and relapse; The threaded light prints through them on the pebbles In scarcely tarnished twinklings.

From Men, Women and Ghosts by Amy Lowell

O gentle sleep! do they belong to thee, These twinklings of oblivion?

From The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, Volume IV (of 8) by William Wordsworth