overcast

The effect also occurred at illumination levels similar to those found indoors or outside on an overcast day.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 28, 2026

Skies are frequently overcast, and winters are cold, gray and gloomy.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 25, 2026

It was a cool, overcast day and as the wind rustled the tree leaves, a baby coyote raced across the lawn in the distance.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 30, 2026

The discourse is civil and the banter is friendly on this humid, overcast morning before Trump's visit, but such across-the-aisle political discussions are few and far between, residents say.

From BBC ● May 1, 2026

There was a moon somewhere beyond the ashen overcast and they could just make out the trees.

From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy

Three months earlier, Blankenship had told mine superintendents to "ignore" requests to build overcasts -- devices that are important for ventilating deadly gases from mines.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 8, 2010

Old flying boats venture out and up through pea-soup overcasts, often to rescue flyers from a sea so cold that few men have survived after floating in it for more than 30 minutes.

From Time Magazine Archive

And should the river of our happy laughter Flow 'neath a sky no cloud yet overcasts, We will not fear the shadows coming after, But make the most of sunshine while it lasts.

From Yule-Tide in Many Lands by L. J. (Lewis Jesse) Bridgman

If it with anger overcasts the eye, And heaven's bright purity perversely blackens, Then zephyr-sighs straight scare the clouds away, And, changed to tears, dissolve them into rain.

From The Poems of Goethe Translated in the original metres by Edgar Alfred Bowring

Suddenly it drives down before it a storm which overcasts the blue sky, so that it is pitch dark in the valley.

From Timar's Two Worlds by Mór Jókai

John Goodman can do the oaky solidity, but perhaps might be overcasting.

From The Guardian ● Nov. 29, 2012

There are also some good library binders who use no bands when overcasting and who sew all other books on tapes.

From Library Bookbinding by Arthur Low Bailey

With all the power of light from the clouds, there was an overcasting of the gloom of evening, a twilight upon the hills.

From Recollections of a Tour Made in Scotland A.D. 1803 by John Campbell Shairp

The teacher should demonstrate the method of overcasting and explain its use.

From Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Household Science in Rural Schools by Ontario. Ministry of Education

It was bright and clear still, though the morning was overcasting a little, as we passed through the meadows.

From Deep Moat Grange by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett