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He goes full Elton on the single Hippie Sunshine, external, whose lairy, chanted chorus is suddenly interrupted by a twinkling piano breakdown.

From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026

A scruffy-faced Radcliffe, twinkling accessible geniality in jeans and a sweatshirt, zips up and down the cavernous theater as though waging a one-man campaign against the isolation epidemic.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 12, 2026

The store’s front facade was wrapped in a giant plaid scarf made of 126,000 twinkling Christmas lights.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 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

“No,” the Huntsman said, his eyes twinkling maliciously.

From "Half Upon a Time" by James Riley

"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 words weren't scarcely out of his mouth before a wind seemed to catch him up, though gently, from his seat on the boulder, and in two twinklings he was standin' on Par Sands.

From Major Vigoureux by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

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

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

From The Invaders by Murray Leinster

Innumerable twinklings of stars faintly illuminated a cloudless, serene heaven, and a foaming, plunging ocean.

From Overland by J. W. (John William) De Forest