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
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
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
Across the Square Diana is twinkling up there in the sky, and beneath, in the Garden, they are pulling off a middle-weight bout to a decision.
From Fifth Avenue by Arthur Bartlett Maurice
But you must not think that, because somewhere among the trees the little house is twinkling, it is a safe thing to remain in the Gardens after Lock-out Time.
From The Little White Bird; or, Adventures in Kensington gardens by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie
