overcast

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

Sander does not romanticize, valorize or flatter them: The even lighting comes from an overcast sky; they are dressed in dark suits and hats, one smokes a cigarette, and each sports a cane.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 16, 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 sky was overcast and a cool breeze blew green leaves and white spring flowers from the trees.

From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova

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 Serviss, Garrett Putman

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

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

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

From The Guardian ● Nov. 29, 2012

This overcasting is done by inserting a fine needle near the back of the knocked-up sheets from above and drawing the thread almost quite through, the second and following stitches all being made from above.

From Practical Bookbinding by Adam, Paul

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

From The Innocent Adventuress by Bradley, Mary Hastings

It has been objected that modern overcasting takes away much of the flexibility of a book and that books once sewed in this way can never be rebound.

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