was twinkling
- past progressive of twinkle.
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
The tinted leaves were stirring gently on the boughs, and here and there an early star was twinkling in the dusky vault above me.
From The Doctor's Daughter by Vera, [pseud.]
A few minutes later he descried an earthly star—a solitary light was twinkling on the distant hillside.
From Life in Morocco and Glimpses Beyond by Meakin, Budgett
I leaned on the garden-gate and looked out at the camp: it was twinkling and bustling in the morning light, which drizzled down upon it in patches from a somewhat agitated sky.
From Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, August, 1878 by Various
