oversleep
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If I happen to oversleep, the music serves as my alarm clock.
From New York Times ● Jan. 7, 2023
Symptoms include a tendency to overeat, oversleep, lack of energy, and difficulty concentrating on tasks.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
The first time I picked him up for an early morning appointment I must have set a dozen alarms, terrified I’d oversleep.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 20, 2021
The average American will also oversleep and be late for work once a week, with one in six saying that number is actually higher.
From Fox News ● Jun. 9, 2019
I even had this crazy hope that maybe I’d be lucky and Dr. Art Ulene would talk about that very thing, about grieving old men who were starting to oversleep in the mornings.
From "Missing May" by Cynthia Rylant
Say the school maintenance man oversleeps and doesn’t unlock the doors of the polling place in time for set-up.
From Salon ● Sep. 15, 2024
Behold his greatest stresses: there’s a mouse on his tier, he oversleeps, he’s putting on weight, his neighbors fart all the time.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2016
In the first scene of the pilot, one of the four roommates oversleeps for an arraignment.
From Slate ● Nov. 15, 2013
Though he oversleeps again, Jean-Paul makes it to the starting line, but just as he takes the lead in the race, he mistakes Kramer’s cup of scalding hot tea for cold water.
From New York Times ● Aug. 26, 2010
"Fits too damned well to be a coincidence! Anthony Marston dies of asphyxiation or choking last night after dinner, and Mother Rogers oversleeps herself with a vengeance."
From "And Then There Were None" by Agatha Christie
But he overslept, missed his 6 a.m. call time, and arrived on the set more than an hour late.
From Salon ● Sep. 12, 2025
Turns out she overslept and missed his concert.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2023
If you look, just a little, like a god who overslept, then you don’t have to learn Shoshone or master “My Sharona” or lose weight or gain weight or have panic attacks.
From New York Times ● Aug. 9, 2023
He was dropped to the bench by Ten Hag for the 31 December trip to Wolves after missing the start of a team meeting because he overslept.
From BBC ● Jan. 12, 2023
Several hours later, I awake in alarm—have I overslept?
From "On the Far Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
Another disciplinary measure saw Rashford put on the substitutes' bench for United's Premier League game at Wolves last season after oversleeping and being late for a team meeting.
From BBC ● Feb. 29, 2024
Quick had a bad habit of oversleeping and being late for minor league bus trips.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 5, 2023
Casemiro and Luke Shaw had already netted for United before Rashford added the third on his return to the team after being dropped against Wolverhampton for oversleeping and missing a meeting.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 3, 2023
Take, for instance, someone who keeps oversleeping because they hit the snooze button on their alarm nine times before finally getting up.
From The Verge ● Aug. 4, 2022
"I think I told her she was oversleeping," I said.
From "Miracle's Boys" by Jacqueline Woodson
