Be out longer than intended having finished taking skins up

Usage examples of oversleep.

Possibly due to the aftereffects of the speedball he had snorted the night before, he overslept and missed his plane.

What was worse, in a way, was the fact that blowing it off no longer created in her the same sense of guilt and despair she had felt back in October when she first overslept a class after playing shepherd for a blitzed Beverly half the night.

No doubt the dancer had also overslept, he had seemed weary to the point of complete exhaustion.

The others must have overslept too, because Mary Jo was still in the initial stages of her lecture.

She lay awake for a long time thinking about it and then overslept so that her breakfast was a scrappy affair of tea and toast, and for all the good her sleepless night had done her, she might just as well not have given Philip a thought, and indeed she had no time to think about him at all during the morning.

In consequence she had overslept, so that she had had to hurry over her dressing and sketchy breakfast, attend to Podge and then hurry through the streets to the Underground.

The figures came nearer and the squinting, exhausted eyes of the hidden couple could see every detail of Drax's blood-orange face, the lean, pale foxiness of Dr Walter, the suety, overslept puffiness of Krebs.

And making love with him that night was a little more heated than normal, was quite explosive actually, and so prolonged that they both overslept the next morning.

Harry was coming to fetch him in his gig, and it would be a dreadful thing if he were to be late on the ground, perhaps oversleeping himself.

Hatch, uncharacteristically oversleeping, dashed out the door of 5 Ocean Lane and hurried down the front walk, stopping only to grab Friday's neglected mail from the box before heading for the pier.

So much time has been lost by oversleeping that jogging is out of the question until tomorrow.

You've been getting penalized like a player in a tournament who oversleeps and automatically gets all the antes and blind bets deducted from his absentee buy-in, and those involuntary bets have—have cost you, horribly.

The next morning, she overslept, then got lost on the way to the hospital, and didn't actually set foot in Blessed Family until noon.