tunnel of love

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noun

a ride in an amusement park consisting of a dark, narrow, covered passageway through which small cars or boats are mechanically conveyed, usually frequented by couples.

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Origin of tunnel of love

First recorded in 1955–60

Words nearby tunnel of love

tunnel, tunnel diode, tunnel disease, tunnel effect, tunneling, tunnel of love, tunnel vault, tunnel vision, Tunney, tunny, Tuonela

How to use tunnel of love in a sentence

What happened to true love knows no boundaries and all that?
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“I love my job and I love my city and I am committed to the work here,” he said in a statement.
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And we have a lot of great guests this season: Greta Gerwig, Natasha Lyonne, Olivia Wilde, Steve Buscemi is back—I love that guy.
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You just travel light with carry-on luggage, go to cities that you love, and get to hang out with all your friends.
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Terrorism is bad news anywhere, but especially rough on Odessa, where the city motto seems to be “make love, not war.”
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In this case, I suspect, there was co-operant a strongly marked childish characteristic, the love of producing an effect.
Children's Ways|James Sully
The well-known "cock and bull" stories of small children are inspired by this love of strong effect.
Children's Ways|James Sully
Women generally consider consequences in love, seldom in resentment.
Pearls of Thought|Maturin M. Ballou
And as she hesitated between obedience to one and duty toward the other, her life, her love and future was in the balance.
The Homesteader|Oscar Micheaux
The grass had a delightful fragrance, like new-mown hay, and was neatly wound around the tunnel, like the inside of a bird's-nest.
Davy and The Goblin|Charles E. Carryl