oversleep
verb (used without object)
to sleep beyond the proper or intended time of waking.
will oversleep
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future tenseof oversleep.future tense
Used to express actions, events, or states that have not yet occurred but are expected to happen.
Example Sentences
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"Perhaps then the preacher will oversleep himself," said he.
From The Children of the World by Paul Heyse
The women must wake very early in the morning and open the windows as soon as it is light; otherwise their absent husbands will oversleep themselves.
From The Golden Bough by Sir James George Frazer
She wakes me every morning punctually at half-past four, but I'm in a blue funk that one of these days she will oversleep herself.
From They and I by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome
Next morning, of course, he will oversleep himself, and his Thucydides paper will be of such a calibre that that eminent historian will writhe in his grave.
From Tales of St. Austin's by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse
