carpe diem
Example Sentences
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The girl’s name comes from carpe diem, as in Kenna’s vow to seize the child she never got to hold, but the script has the restraint not to make a big standing-on-a-desk speech about that.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 12, 2026
A tattoo in Latin on his right arms reads "carpe diem", or "seize the day".
From BBC • Sep. 26, 2022
It’s a carpe diem festival — a reminder of impermanence, as the petals shatter and drop.
From Seattle Times • May 10, 2022
Her instructions to Leif include a lot of carpe diem stuff that you yourself have likely heard a thousand times, even if you don’t have a hippie in your life.
From New York Times • Jul. 29, 2021
No blow then has ever been struck at the natural loves and laughter of men so sterilizing as this carpe diem of the aesthetes.
From Heretics by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)
