is twinkling
- present progressive of twinkle (3rd person singular).
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 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 Crawford, Isabella Valancy
A plain light, what is a plain light a plain light is twinkling.
From Matisse Picasso and Gertrude Stein With Two Shorter Stories by Stein, Gertrude
Meanwhile Mr. Clive's drawings have been crackling in the fireplace at her feet, and the last spark of that combustion is twinkling out unheeded.
From The Newcomes Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family by Thackeray, William Makepeace
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 Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew)
