overcast

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

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 25, 2026

She first experienced severe sunburn on an overcast day in May 2025.

From BBC ● Aug. 24, 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

On overcast days, when the sun was hidden, pigeons that lacked the macrophages lost their sense of direction and had difficulty navigating home.

From Science Daily ● May 31, 2026

The overcast sky blended into the dark choppy water, so there was no way to tell where one ended and the other began.

From "City Spies" by James Ponti

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

When every drop of blood in the veins is pure a beauteous flush overcasts the young girl's cheek.

From Right Living as a Fine Art A Study of Channing's Symphony as an Outline of the Ideal Life and Character by Newell Dwight Hillis

Good Heavens, my dear, how deeply is your father still immersed in material things! how dense is his understanding, and what gloom overcasts his soul!

From The Pretentious Young Ladies by Molière

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

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

From The Guardian ● Nov. 29, 2012

No pasting on or overcasting to be allowed.

From Bookbinding, and the Care of Books A handbook for Amateurs, Bookbinders & Librarians by Noel Rooke

As soon as the overcasting is done, proceed with the button-holing without breaking the thread.

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

It has been objected that modern overcasting takes away much of the flexibility of a book and that books once sewed in this way can never be rebound.

From Library Bookbinding by Arthur Low Bailey

This method takes the place of serging or overcasting and is much better for thin ravelly goods.

From The Copeland Method A Complete Manual for Cleaning, Repairing, Altering and Pressing All Kinds of Garments for Men and Women, at Home or for Busines by Vanness Copeland