overcast
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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
Friday night also might end up quite overcast for many but those patient enough to wait until Saturday night will have the best viewing chances.
From BBC ● Apr. 15, 2026
The midday sun has only just begun to peek through the overcast sky.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 27, 2026
The waves were so rough on this overcast day that, even from this distance, she could see the breakers.
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
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
Suddenly it drives down before it a storm which overcasts the blue sky, so that it is pitch dark in the valley.
From Timar's Two Worlds by Mór Jókai
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
It was as if a shadow were overcasting the bright joy of her home-coming.
From The Rosie World by Parker Fillmore
No pasting on or overcasting to be allowed.
From Bookbinding, and the Care of Books A handbook for Amateurs, Bookbinders & Librarians by Noel Rooke
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
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
Vocabulary lists containing overcast
"Marriage is a Private Affair" by Chinua Achebe
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4.1: Causes and Consequences of Iberian Maritime Exploration and Colonialism (Sources 1–12)
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