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How to pronounce twinkle in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms light, spark, sparkle
Type of vitality, face, aspect, look, expression, facial expression, verve
Derivation twinkly


there's a perpetual twinkle in his eyes.
Type Words
Synonyms scintillate, winkle
Type of beam, shine
Verb group scintillate
Derivation twinkler


Does a constellation twinkle more brightly than a single star?.
Type Words
Synonyms blink, flash, wink, winkle
Type of radiate
Has types flick, flicker
Derivation twinkler
Type Words
Synonyms scintillation, sparkling
Type of alteration, change, modification

Examples of twinkle

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More than 1 million lights twinkle over 40 blocks, near the Old Market District.
From the omaha.com
As for Odom, the twinkle was back in his eyes as he spoke to reporters Saturday.
From the dailynews.com
Murray has talked about the importance of showing FDR with a twinkle in his eye.
From the sfgate.com
For almost as far as we can see across the desert, lanterns twinkle in the dusk.
From the newscientist.com
Also, do we have any reported cases of vandals user TWINKLE et al for vandalism?
From the en.wikipedia.org
Normally, while nominating a page for deletion, I use twinkle to do the needful.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Voters who meet him in person are beguiled by his big smile and southern twinkle.
From the economist.com
Quality trash talk comes not with malice in the heart but a twinkle in the eye.
From the sacbee.com
That was 2003 and you probably weren't even a twinkle in the architect's eye yet.
From the usatoday.com
More examples
  • A rapid change in brightness; a brief spark or flash
  • Flash: gleam or glow intermittently; "The lights were flashing"
  • Emit or reflect light in a flickering manner; "Does a constellation twinkle more brightly than a single star?"
  • Sparkle: merriment expressed by a brightness or gleam or animation of countenance; "he had a sparkle in his eye"; "there's a perpetual twinkle in his eyes"
  • (twinkly) beamish: smiling with happiness or optimism; "Come to my arms, my beamish boy!"- Lewis Carroll; "a room of smiling faces"; "a round red twinkly Santa Claus"
  • TWINKLE is a hypothetical integer factorization device described in 1999 by Adi Shamir and purported to be capable of factoring 512-bit integers. The name is an acronym of "The Weizmann Institute Key Locating Engine". It is also a pun on the twinkling LEDs used in the device.
  • Twinkle, 'the picture paper especially for little girls' was a popular British comic, published by D. C. Thomson & Co. Ltd from 27 January 1968 to 1999 (1612 issues). ...
  • Twinkle (born Lynn Annette Ripley, 15 July 1947, Surbiton, England) is an English singer-songwriter, primarily in the 1960s. Twinkle's most famous songs were "Terry" and "Golden Lights".
  • Twinkle is a free software open source software application for Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) voice communications in IP networks, such as the Internet. It is designed for GNU/Linux operating systems and uses the Qt toolkit for its graphical user interface. ...