have a nice day

Example Sentences

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It’s the pretend this person doesn’t exist, look at your shoes, let’s just have a nice day, hurry by move that Midwesterners have perfected.

From Slate • Oct. 22, 2025

Remember my friend's button, the one that insisted POWs never have a nice day?

From Salon • Feb. 8, 2021

“I always just say it’s people waking up and trying their best to have a nice day at a difficult time,” explains Josh Thomas, the show’s creator and star.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 2, 2020

He said he was confused by what Mirabella meant and he walked toward him to pat him on the shoulder and tell him to have a nice day.

From Fox News • Mar. 5, 2020

She drank half the glass in one long gulp, then wiped her mouth daintily and said, “Did you have a nice day at school?”

From "The Lions of Little Rock" by Kristin Levine