Example Sentences

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The light had twinkled away as the dancers floated through their motions.

From The New Yorker • Jul. 14, 2019

Light from crystal chandeliers had twinkled back from gold braid and jewels.

From "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" by Elizabeth George Speare

"Cab, sir?" called the driver of a hansom the lights of which had twinkled from a judicious distance for some time past.

From Flint His Faults, His Friendships and His Fortunes by Goodwin, Maud Wilder

A girl from some far city she was; a small star that had twinkled behind the footlights and had fled––or had fallen––to the Black Rim country.

From Rim o' the World by Fischer, Anton Otto

Oh, gladly will I do it; it seems as if a star from heaven had twinkled to me to follow it, for at Weimar is centred all my happiness!

From Old Fritz and the New Era by Langley, Peter