overcast
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It was overcast outside, but I knew the sun could break through at any moment.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2026
On an overcast Wednesday morning in Salt Lake City this summer, four bicyclists gathered in an industrial area not far from the city’s airport before fanning out across town.
From Slate ● Aug. 4, 2026
The warmest the Three Lions have played in was 25C for the final group game against Panama, but that featured overcast skies.
From BBC ● Jul. 11, 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 sky was overcast with not a single star shining.
From "Inkheart" by Cornelia Funke
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 we first called she had just passed her fourth birthday, and now overcasts from three to four pairs of pants every day.
From The Arena Volume 4, No. 19, June, 1891 by Flower, B. O. (Benjamin Orange)
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 Bowring, Edgar Alfred
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 Hillis, Newell Dwight
John Goodman can do the oaky solidity, but perhaps might be overcasting.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 29, 2012
Today every progressive library binder has a special method of overcasting and each claims that his method is the best.
From Library Bookbinding by Bailey, Arthur Low
When she was dancing with Arthur Henty, Michael had seen the sudden drooping and overcasting of her gaiety.
From The Black Opal by Prichard, Katharine Susannah
Nearly all books should be sewed with some modern method of overcasting.
From Library Bookbinding by Bailey, Arthur Low
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
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