overcast

Dean said clear skies would give the best view of the event but, if the weather was overcast, it would still "go dark, a little bit cold and the birds will go silent".

From BBC ● Aug. 5, 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

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

I thought it'd get sunnier once we crossed the bridge, but the weather’s overcast, a dull gray.

From "The House That Lou Built" by Mae Respicio

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

Bonaventure seemed scarce less tempest-tossed than he; and all about the school the distress spread as wintry gray overcasts a sky.

From Bonaventure A Prose Pastoral of Acadian Louisiana by George Washington Cable

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

From The Guardian ● Nov. 29, 2012

They looked very threatening, blowing so suddenly over the mountain top, overcasting the brightness of the way.

From The Innocent Adventuress by Mary Hastings Bradley

The librarian will insist not only that nine-tenths of fiction and juvenile books must be overcast, but that a special kind of overcasting must be used.

From Library Bookbinding by Arthur Low Bailey

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

Above the flare of the thick canopy of the smoke spread out, completely overcasting the river.

From Frances of the Ranges The Old Ranchman's Treasure by Amy Bell Marlowe