twinkle
verb (used without object)
to shine with a flickering gleam of light, as a star or distant light.
is twinkling
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present progressiveof twinkle (3rd person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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The kids are still in shorts, the scoreboard is twinkling, the week is finally over.
From Time Magazine Archive
I know the Bois is twinkling In a sort of hazy sheen, And down the Champs the gray old arch Stands cold and still between.
From Helen of Troy and Other Poems by Sara Teasdale
A plain light, what is a plain light a plain light is twinkling.
From Matisse Picasso and Gertrude Stein With Two Shorter Stories by Gertrude Stein
See, the darkness below the red dottings is twinkling with many a spark!
From Continental Monthly , Vol. 6, No. 1, July, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy. by Various
I see a heron from the marsh go sailing in the sky, The purple moor is like a dream, a star is twinkling clear— Perhaps the meeting that she spaed is drawing very near!
From Old Spookses' Pass, Malcolm's Katie, and other poems by Isabella Valancy Crawford
