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

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

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

They’d been together going on two decades when Semple lost herself, miserable in an overcast city without a tribe of her own.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 30, 2026

She was squinting to read in the dim light from the overcast window.

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

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

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

Why that ominous redness which overcasts the heavens?

From The Second Deluge by Garrett Putman Serviss

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

From The Guardian ● Nov. 29, 2012

Diagonal lines of thread are first laid from edge to edge of the ground space, and these are sewn down by short overcasting stitches in the cross direction.

From Art in Needlework A Book about Embroidery by Mary Buckle

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

It serves both the purpose of overcasting over a raw edge and that of hemming.

From Handicraft for Girls A Tentative Course in Needlework, Basketry, Designing, Paper and Cardboard Construction, Textile Fibers and Fabrics and Home Decoration and Care by Idabelle McGlauflin

The teacher should demonstrate the method of overcasting and explain its use.

From Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Household Science in Rural Schools by Ontario. Ministry of Education