puppy love

Example Sentences

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“You know, you have puppy love experiences, you think that’s love,” she told Cosmopolitan in September 2023.

From Los Angeles Times • May 14, 2025

“Heartstopper” offered its audience mellow dramatics and an understanding that puppy love is universal.

From New York Times • Jul. 29, 2023

“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

“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