lovers' lane

Example Sentences

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For at least eight years in the 1950s, he returned every March 24 to a San Bernardino lovers’ lane, where his teenage sweetheart, Angela Dornna, had once promised to meet him.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 14, 2023

Inside its Moorish-inspired walls there was a ballroom, cinema and café, and outside, a tunnel of love, a lovers' lane lined by Kauri trees, tennis courts and fountains.

From BBC • Aug. 17, 2018

Taken together, this seamy decalogue shows the '50s as a neat place to visit -- a lovers' lane accessible from a killer drag strip -- but hell to live through.

From Time Magazine Archive

The flats of Flushing were no lovers' lane last week.

From Time Magazine Archive

A sort of animated lovers' lane is thus formed, through which the promenaders have to run the gauntlet, and are subjected to a certain amount of criticism.

From A Tramp Through the Bret Harte Country by Beasley, Thomas Dykes