twinkle
verb (used without object)
to shine with a flickering gleam of light, as a star or distant light.
was twinkling
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past progressiveof twinkle.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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You can’t imagine him having done anything criminal in his life, unless it was twinkling someone to death.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 8, 2020
The guide invited the crowd to imagine that they were looking across a desert at a mountain range on a day that was twinkling bright and clear.
From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut
I only know that when at last we emerged from our ambrosial shelter the muscles of my stomach had grown sore from the strain of laughter, and Arcturus was twinkling overhead.
From Alone by Norman Douglas
She was twinkling at Michael, but he would not catch her eye, and he looked steadily over the brim of her hat toward the raffish and rutilant assemblage beyond.
From Sinister Street, vol. 2 by Compton MacKenzie
It is not easy to fix the exact date of the Nativity, but it fell, most probably, on the last day of Kislen, when every Jewish house in Bethlehem and Jerusalem was twinkling with lights.
From A Righte Merrie Christmasse The Story of Christ-Tide by Arthur C. Behrend
