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

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

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 window, he saw when he reached it, opened onto a dim, tundralike landscape that was flatter than the mountains in the Cittàgazze world, and colder, with an overcast sky.

From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman

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

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 B. O. (Benjamin Orange) Flower

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

From The Guardian ● Nov. 29, 2012

This method can be used only if adjoining leaf is firm, but can never be employed with overcasting.

From Library Bookbinding by Arthur Low Bailey

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

That is a detail, if the borders themselves are intact; and the edges only need overcasting before it is too late.

From The Oriental Rug A Monograph on Eastern Rugs and Carpets, Saddle-Bags, Mats & Pillows, with a Consideration of Kinds and Classes, Types, Borders, Figures, Dyes, Symbols, etc. Together with Some Practical Advice to Collectors. by W. D. (William DeLancey) Ellwanger

She saw, however, the concern overcasting the features of all of them—except Mathilde—and she now mastered herself entirely, though the tremor remained, very deep down within her.

From Dr. Adriaan by Louis Couperus