Child gazed skyward, stars twinkling.

Meaning: This means the child looked up at the sky and saw the stars shining brightly.

Choice of Words: Gazed means to look intently and steadily at something. Skyward means towards the sky. Twinkling means to shine with a small, irregular flashes of light. When you put them together, the sentence describes a child looking up at the stars in the night sky.

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