Sentence examples for oversleeping from inspiring English sources
"oversleeping" is a correct and usable word in written English
You can use it to refer to when you have slept for longer than you intended, or when you have slept too late. For example, "I had to rush to work this morning after oversleeping."
verb
Present participle of oversleep
Russian has a word for "sleeping too much", perespat', which doesn't mean oversleeping and missing your appointment there's a word for that too, prospat' but actually sleeping more than you should have and feeling groggy in the morning.
Adults tend to need between six and nine hours sleep to feel well-rested, but oversleeping has previously been linked with health problems such as diabetes or obesity.
One customer must have thought his luck had deserted him after placing his winning EuroMillions ticket under his mattress for safe keeping, but oversleeping in the morning and forgetting to pick it up.
Rob, the fourth eldest, recalls Dicky occasionally oversleeping and accusing him or their mother of stealing his alarm clock, early inklings of a paranoid tendency.
He says he never owned part of a British football team and never chartered a plane to catch up with a political campaign after oversleeping, although he has chartered some planes in his time.
"What were your symptoms?" Ellie asks, and the woman describes her trouble with weight gain, insomnia, and oversleeping.
If you oversleep for even a few days, experts say you risk resetting your body clock to a different cycle, so you'll start getting tired later in the day.
After Megan told her mother that she loved her, she left with a warning to her and her friend: "Make sure you girls don't oversleep".
Rather, they often oversleep, overeat, and feel irritable and aggressive.
One morning the family oversleeps because of a broken alarm clock.
Like, man, if you let them oversleep they going to have a rough day, man.
