puppy love
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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“Show a little puppy love to your pet and take it out of the carrying case,” Farbstein said.
From Washington Post • Feb. 24, 2023
Boston-based RR Auction says the handwritten draft of a letter to his eldest son, Thomas — then 14 — shows the “Of Mice and Men” author’s empathy: He refused to dismiss it as puppy love.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 5, 2022
The changes make this “13” look and feel more like a conventional Netflix teen movie — all about puppy love and jostling for popularity — rather than the one-of-a-kind theatrical experience it once was.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 12, 2022
But they also started talking about their onetime puppy love, and how it had grown into something more substantial.
From New York Times • Sep. 3, 2021
“He really did. It wasn’t—it wasn’t puppy love or anything,” she added, as if I didn’t know that.
From "The Fault in Our Stars" by John Green
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