overcast
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The effect also occurred at illumination levels similar to those found indoors or outside on an overcast day.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 28, 2026
Skies are frequently overcast, and winters are cold, gray and gloomy.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 25, 2026
While much of Europe and large parts of England and Wales have sweltered in record-breaking heat this summer, the weather here is overcast and relatively cool.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 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
As he stood clear to let Chervil pass, Bigwig came up behind him and looked out into the overcast.
From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams
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 Mór Jókai
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
When we first called she had just passed her fourth birthday, and now overcasts from three to four pairs of pants every day.
From The Arena Volume 4, No. 19, June, 1891 by B. O. (Benjamin Orange) Flower
John Goodman can do the oaky solidity, but perhaps might be overcasting.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 29, 2012
It was bright and clear still, though the morning was overcasting a little, as we passed through the meadows.
From Deep Moat Grange by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
Trim off edges and finish with binding or close overcasting.
From Textiles and Clothing by Kate Heintz Watson
It was much more exciting than overcasting seams.
From Peggy in Her Blue Frock by Alice B. Preston
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
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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