twinkles 1 of 2

plural of twinkle

twinkles

2 of 2

verb

present tense third-person singular of twinkle

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of twinkles
Noun
Perch yourself in the Hollywood Hills and watch as the city twinkles below at night. Erika Owen, Architectural Digest, 23 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for twinkles
Noun
  • Jim waits 45 minutes after sending a trade alert before buying or selling a stock in his charitable trust's portfolio.
    Jeff Marks, CNBC, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Sputnik 1 was the first artificial satellite in all of Earth’s history, completing an orbit around the Earth at an altitude of hundreds of miles (or kilometers) above the ground every 90 minutes.
    Ethan Siegel, Big Think, 1 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • But then, the actress flashes a mischievous grin.
    Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 29 Sep. 2025
  • Hayley then flashes a strip of sonogram photos at the camera as the couple smiles and sways in the sunlight.
    Charlotte Phillipp, PEOPLE, 15 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Patches of unintelligibility are nothing new in Pynchon, but usually a coherent world view gleams upward from the murk.
    Kathryn Schulz, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
  • Nothing gleams as beautifully as a white kitchen.
    Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 16 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Independent bookstores are the heartbeats of their communities.
    American Booksellers Association, USA Today, 26 Sep. 2025
  • Using its optical heart sensor, the watch reviews how your blood vessels respond to heartbeats over 30-day periods.
    Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 15 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Over dinner, a broadcast flickers on the cabin’s dusty TV.
    JP Mangalindan, Time, 28 Aug. 2025
  • The glowing phenomenon appears as rays, spirals and flickers that most commonly manifest in hues of red and green.
    Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 19 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Giovanni Elber scored 11 seconds into a match with Hamburg in January 1998, and Lothar Matthaus took just 13 seconds to find the net against Borussia Monchengladbach in April 1986.
    Sebastian Stafford-Bloor, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2025
  • Studnicka scored twice — opening scoring 56 seconds into regulation and capping it 28 seconds into overtime on the power play — to lead the Panthers to a 4-3 preseason win over the Carolina Hurricanes at Amerant Bank Arena.
    Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 30 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • But even outside festival season, the city sparkles.
    Jeryl Brunner, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
  • The novel sparkles with Sosa’s signature wit and sense of humor; the banter between Javi and Mari is deliciously funny, bursting with laugh-out-loud moments on seemingly every other page.
    EW.com, EW.com, 28 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • The lasers converge and somehow create what looks like a circular portal to another planet which shimmers and spins.
    Caroline Reid, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • This technique often is used with fencing to create a visual barrier and to startle geese when the tape shimmers in the breeze.
    Arricca Elin SanSone, Southern Living, 23 Aug. 2025

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“Twinkles.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/twinkles. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.

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