Planets twinkled like distant lights.

Meaning: The planets were visible in the night sky, shining with a flickering light as they orbited the sun.

Choice of Words: Planets are celestial bodies that orbit the sun. Twinkled means to shine with a flickering or intermittent light. Distant means far away or remote. When planets twinkle like distant lights, it means that they are visible in the night sky and appear to flicker or shine intermittently due to the Earth's atmosphere.

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• Telescopes help us see faraway planets, like distant friends.
• Stars distant lights.
• Tiny lights twinkled like stars in midnight sky.
• Stars twinkled, like tiny lights.
• The stars above twinkled like distant fireflies.
• Stars twinkled like distant diamonds.
• Stars twinkled like distant campfires in the night sky.
• Stars twinkled like distant lanterns.
• Stars twinkled above, like distant fireflies.
• Galaxies twinkled like distant fireflies.