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TWINKLE

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twinkle I. substantiv

1. licăr, licărire; scăpărare, scânteiere.

2. clipire (a ochilor).

3. tresărire; mişcare bruscă.

4. clipă, clipită, moment;

in a twinkle într-o clipă.

twinkle II. verb A. intranzitiv

1. a licări; a scăpăra, a scânteia.

2. a clipi; a clipoti.

twinkle II. verb B. tranzitiv

1. a aprinde; a face să scânteieze.

2. a clipi din (ochi).

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

I suppose they were ten miles off from me, yet even at that distance one could observe how, from time to time, they twinkled or were obscured as someone passed before them.

(The Lost World, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"Is that all?" said Jo, looking disappointed, as Laurie nodded and twinkled with a face full of mysterious intelligence.

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

With bow, a smile, and a twinkle, Milverton was out of the room, and a few moments after we heard the slam of the carriage door and the rattle of the wheels as he drove away.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Shortly after the contest had begun, any one looking from the lists along this road might have remarked, far away in the extreme distance, two brilliant and sparkling points which glittered and twinkled in the bright shimmer of the winter sun.

(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

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