Example Sentences
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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
“I was a little bit late for a meeting. I slept in, overslept, but it can happen,” Rashford said.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 31, 2022
If Ob had overslept and sat around in his pajamas all day and made excuses for it—or worse, thought nothing of it at all—that would have made me ready to give up on him.
From "Missing May" by Cynthia Rylant
