overcast

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

On Sunday afternoon, most of England was dry, but overcast, following some rain across the north of the country during the morning.

From BBC ● May 3, 2026

The midday sun has only just begun to peek through the overcast sky.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 27, 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

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 Jókai, Mór

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

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

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

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 Marlowe, Amy Bell

It was much more exciting than overcasting seams.

From Peggy in Her Blue Frock by Preston, Alice B.