oversleep
Example Sentences
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“Did we oversleep?” he said, groggy, smelling the air.
From Literature
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“I was up too late studying and I overslept. We’re still OK on time, right?”
From Literature
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Another ten minutes and he would have overslept.
From Literature
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But he overslept, missed his 6 a.m. call time, and arrived on the set more than an hour late.
From Salon
The teenager from Warrington said he had overslept after taking a morning nap, which did not impress his colleagues.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.