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
O gentle sleep! do they belong to thee, These twinklings of oblivion?
From The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, Volume IV (of 8) by William Wordsworth
And Odysseus gazed at the twinklings of the feet, and marvelled in spirit.
From The Odyssey Done into English prose by Andrew Lang
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
But nearer and nearer, low-creeping along, came mists and vapors, a thousand; spotted with twinklings of Will-o-Wisps from neighboring shores.
From Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II by Herman Melville
