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
“Nekwa, Papa-Nnukwu is still asleep. He will be upset that the medicines made him oversleep and he did not wake to watch the sun rise.”
From "Purple Hibiscus" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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
The rat wins, while the cat oversleeps and misses the whole race.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 18, 2023
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
He was dropped for last season's game at Wolves because he overslept and missed a team meeting.
From BBC ● Jan. 31, 2024
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
"And without his friend's alarm call Cat overslept, missing his chance to sign up, which is why there's no cat in the lunar calendar."
From Salon ● Jan. 21, 2023
He'd overslept, then forgotten to grab the stack of comics he set out for her the night before.
From "Eleanor & Park" by Rainbow Rowell
Having been named in the squad for the Premier League match against Arsenal at Emirates Stadium on 30 August 2008, Keegan pulled Ranger aside after oversleeping.
From BBC ● Oct. 10, 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
He looks as if he hasn’t slept for weeks, although he’s been sleeping a lot, oversleeping.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
