oversleep
verb (used without object)
to sleep beyond the proper or intended time of waking.
has overslept
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present perfectof oversleep (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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Flustered because he has overslept and is expecting a guest — his severe Great-Aunt Matilda — Mr. Curry wants to oust Paddington, who seeks sugar for a marmalade recipe.
From New York Times ● Dec. 22, 2019
I describe a brave general who has overslept and finds his troops have left the encampment.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 23, 2015
But at last I had a great shock; everything broke up like a great, grand, noble dream,—and I waked out of it just as weak and wretched as one feels when one has overslept.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 24, October, 1859 by Various
I have no patience with the worm, and when I rise with the lark I am always careful to select a lark that has overslept himself.
From Ponkapog Papers by Thomas Bailey Aldrich
He compared himself to a man who, having a busy day before him, has overslept himself.
From A Handbook of the Boer War With General Map of South Africa and 18 Sketch Maps and Plans by
