puppy love

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

Knowing she will not live much beyond 16, she wants to experience everything she imagines the world has to offer — road trips, a robot butler, puppy love — while she can.

From New York Times • Nov. 10, 2022

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

That was the day my puppy love, my silly crush for her, changed into something else.

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith