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

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)

Powder is not elegant, it is not painful, it is meritorious, it is twinkling, it is the weather.

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

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 Maurice, Arthur Bartlett