How to Use puppy love in a Sentence

puppy love

noun
  • This is puppy love and the performers need to look right in those roles.
    — Mike Giuliano, baltimoresun.com, 21 June 2019
  • Add a jack-o'-lantern with your dog's breed for some puppy love on Halloween.
    — Sarah Martens, Better Homes & Gardens, 25 Sep. 2022
  • There's nothing like puppy love — and that goes for the famous four-legged friends, too!
    — Alexandra Schonfeld, PEOPLE, 9 May 2026
  • But as racy as the video is, fans are under no pretense that the two are in the throes of gay puppy love.
    — Alex Hawgood, New York Times, 24 Oct. 2020
  • To a 15-year-old learning about puppy love, this set was my Bible.
    — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 4 May 2020
  • There will be no puppy love for Ghislaine Maxwell at her new home.
    — Rich Schapiro, NBC news, 6 Aug. 2025
  • And no amount of puppy love can salvage the woof-worthy dialogue.
    — Thomas Floyd, Washington Post, 13 Mar. 2024
  • Judge Hardy overrules son Andy’s puppy love in the first film in the series.
    — Los Angeles Times, 26 Feb. 2021
  • Or some people say your first love is puppy love, but your second love is the real love, and there are only two loves.
    — Carly Tagen-Dye, Peoplemag, 12 Dec. 2023
  • In fact, that moment of puppy love made InStyle's list of best movie kisses of all time.
    — Susan Spencer, CBS News, 8 Feb. 2026
  • Now, Wynn is set up in the social workers office and on-call for staffers who need some puppy love to relieve stress.
    — Amanda Jackson, CNN, 26 Mar. 2020
  • Ohio's feeling the puppy love -- the state may soon name the Labrador retriever as its official dog.
    — Christina Kline, CNN, 20 Mar. 2018
  • Pardon My Frenchie is no exception, with its tale of puppy love (for both dogs and humans).
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 15 Aug. 2024
  • Shawn Mendes, the 22-year-old Canadian folk-pop singer with the velour trill, is a bard of puppy love.
    — Robyn Bahr, Billboard, 23 Nov. 2020
  • Kevin Costner is getting some puppy love for Valentine's Day.
    — Kimberlee Speakman, Peoplemag, 1 Feb. 2024
  • We were accused of puppy love, infatuation, and naiveté, as if these traits were cardinal sins.
    — Genevieve Plunkett, refinery29.com, 15 July 2021
  • We were accused of puppy love, infatuation, and naiveté, as if these traits were cardinal sins.
    — T Kira Madden, refinery29.com, 3 Aug. 2021
  • Buddy Holly’s puppy love malt shop rock n’ roll repurposed for this numinous oath.
    — Jeff Weiss, Spin, 21 Aug. 2023
  • Some might say there's no love like puppy love, and this 2-year-old golden retriever named Rosie has a huge case of it—for her own nine puppies.
    — Madison Alcedo, Country Living, 11 Dec. 2017
  • Steven is a devout Mormon, and Alina has no clue what that is, but these two are obviously in puppy love.
    — Ashley Ray-Harris, Vulture, 31 Aug. 2021
  • Kris goes so far as to read/narrate painful chapters from her own diary, some whimsical and tinged with puppy love, others drowning in melancholy.
    — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Mar. 2023
  • Actor Ryan Reynolds adopted his dog Baxter from a shelter and it's been puppy love ever since.
    — Chloe Melas, CNN, 26 Aug. 2021
  • Gisele Bündchen is feeling the puppy love this Valentine's Day.
    — Alexandra Schonfeld, Peoplemag, 14 Feb. 2023
  • Over the years, puppy love developed into real love and, now, soon-to-be marital bliss in 2020.
    — Karen Pilarski, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 3 July 2019
  • That, for me, is praise for a work of art that’s as close to puppy love as this grizzled, jaded old WASP will ever feel.
    — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 24 Aug. 2019
  • Kathy Griffin is getting all the puppy love after getting home from the hospital following surgery for lung cancer.
    — Julie Mazziotta, PEOPLE.com, 6 Aug. 2021
  • Her early days of pop stardom were defined by her relationship with Justin Bieber, and the ghost of their puppy love seems to follow her today.
    — Carrie Battan, The New Yorker, 19 Dec. 2022
  • Ahead, look back on Cyrus and Hemsworth's love story—from their teenage puppy love to their heartbreaking split and their very public moments of passion in between.
    — Harper's BAZAAR, 18 Apr. 2013
  • Disney is releasing a live-action remake of Lady and the Tramp — the 1955 film all about true puppy love.
    — Kelli Bender, PEOPLE.com, 8 Aug. 2019
  • The soul in her runs and relatable lyrics have continued to usher in the joys of summer cookouts, endless moments of puppy love, and serious reality checks.
    — Sydney Clarke, refinery29.com, 28 June 2021

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