twinkling
noun
an act of shining with intermittent gleams of light.
twinklings
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pluralof twinkling.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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"It quickly became clear to me that mutability has these twinklings of joy, sometimes ecstasy, which comes through in the poems, I think."
From The Guardian ● Jan. 27, 2011
Most of our chaps patronize the King's Head—first-rate place; get anything you like in two twinklings of a lamb's tail.
From Life in London or, the Pitfalls of a Great City by Edwin Hodder
For, abruptly, walls and floor and roof broke forth into countless twinklings!
From The Metal Monster by Abraham Merritt
It is also observable, that those bright scintillations neer the Horizon, are not by much so quick and sudden in their consecutions of one another, as the nimbler twinklings of Stars neerer the Zenith.
From Micrographia Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon by Robert Hooke
Still later, infinitesimal twinklings on the ground at the horizon.
From The Invaders by Murray Leinster
