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 overcast outside, but I knew the sun could break through at any moment.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 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

The day was gray and overcast, and it was Deen leaving, and Jinny calling out, “Stay!”

From "Orphan Island" by Laurel Snyder

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

Why that ominous redness which overcasts the heavens?

From The Second Deluge by Garrett Putman Serviss

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 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

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

Today every progressive library binder has a special method of overcasting and each claims that his method is the best.

From Library Bookbinding by Arthur Low Bailey

The modern overcasting stitch resembles in principle the old-fashioned whipstitching, but differs radically in actual performance.

From Library Bookbinding by Arthur Low Bailey