TWINKLE in a Sentence

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For TWINKLE, below is one of 88 sentences:
And he dropped her hand; and she gave him an arch roguish twinkle, as if to say--but the end of that sentence was cut short.

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 Meanings and Examples of TWINKLE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
twinkle
 v.  open and shut the eye rapidly; blink; wink
Classic Sentence: (83 in 6 pages)
1  "Going out for exercise," answered Jo with a mischievous twinkle in her eyes.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER FIVE
2  A second look showed her that the living eyes, under the bushy eyebrows, were kinder even than the painted ones, and there was a sly twinkle in them, which lessened her fear a good deal.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER FIVE
3  "A colliery," remarks Uncle, with a twinkle of the eye.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE
4  "Well, I did it to please Amy," began Laurie, with a twinkle that made Jo exclaim.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER FORTY-THREE
5  Her eyes began to glisten and her lids to twinkle.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
6  And he dropped her hand; and she gave him an arch roguish twinkle, as if to say--but the end of that sentence was cut short.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 12
7  His features might have been called good, had there not lurked under the pent-house of his eye, that sly epicurean twinkle which indicates the cautious voluptuary.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
8  Our young companion looked at me with a twinkle in his eye.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In IV. The Adventure of The Stockbroker's Clerk
9  "I quite understand your position," said Holmes, with a mischievous twinkle in his eyes.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In XI. THE ADVENTURE OF THE MISSING THREE-QUARTER
10  The stars in the sky were intensely bright and seemed to me to twinkle very little.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In XI
11  As he imparted this melancholy circumstance to Wemmick, Mr. Jaggers standing magisterially before the fire and taking no share in the proceedings, Mike's eye happened to twinkle with a tear.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter LI
12  Here and there, some early lamps were seen to twinkle in the distant city; and in the eastern quarter of the sky the lurid light still hovered.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 46. INTELLIGENCE
13  "To do good, probably," said the prince with a twinkle in his eye.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: Chapter 34
14  Grandfather heard our story with a twinkle in his eye.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XVIII
15  "O yes, Mas'r," said Topsy, with another twinkle, her hands still devoutly folded.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX
Example Sentence:
1  Stars twinkle in the sky above us, above you, and above them.
2  The star seemed to twinkle hope to us.
3  The street slept in darkness, aside from the occasional twinkling of lights from two or three windows.
4  Stars twinkled above them as they lay on the hill.
5  The stars twinkled in the sky.