twinkle
verb (used without object)
to shine with a flickering gleam of light, as a star or distant light.
have twinkled
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present perfectof twinkle.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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We might have twinkled on several days of last week, but we prefer to coruscate on last night.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 98, March 22, 1890 by Various
The stars may have twinkled overhead, and sundry voices of the night may have whispered to us as we lay down to sleep, but we were too tired for poetry or sentiment that night.
From The Log of a Cowboy A Narrative of the Old Trail Days by Andy Adams
How long he had been lying there, no one might tell; a few moments more, and the last flicker of life would have twinkled mercifully out.
From Shapes that Haunt the Dusk by William Dean Howells
The stars have twinkled, and gone out— Fair candles blown!
From The Home Book of Verse — Volume 1 by Burton Egbert Stevenson
Bok's eyes must have twinkled, and just then the mother looked at him, caught his eye; she gave a little gasp, and Bok saw that she had telepathically discovered him!
From The Americanization of Edward Bok : the autobiography of a Dutch boy fifty years after by Edward William Bok
