twinkle
Speech parts
1. twinkle - Noun
2. twinkle - Verb
Meaning
To open and shut the eye rapidly; to blink; to wink.
To shine with an intermitted or a broken, quavering light; to flash at intervals; to sparkle; to scintillate.
A closing or opening, or a quick motion, of the eye; a wink or sparkle of the eye.
A brief flash or gleam, esp. when rapidly repeated.
The time of a wink; a twinkling.
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We are all of us stars, and we deserve to twinkle.
Twinkle, twinkle little bat How I wonder what you're at! Up above the world you fly, Like a tea-tray in the sky.
I am involved in a freedom ride protesting the loss of the minority rights belonging to the few remaining earthbound stars. All we demanded was our right to twinkle.
Continuous as the stars that shine; And twinkle on the milky way.
In addition, Master Twinkle seems convinced that someone is denying him a pair of stripey trousers.
When the world is itself draped in the mantle of night, the mirror of the mind is like the sky in which thoughts twinkle like stars.