overcast

Skies are frequently overcast, and winters are cold, gray and gloomy.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 25, 2026

She first experienced severe sunburn on an overcast day in May 2025.

From BBC ● Aug. 24, 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

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

By 5:00 A.M. the first hint of daylight glowed dimly in the east, and daybreak brought a chilly, misty, overcast day with snow squalls driving in ragged veils across the ice.

From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong

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 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

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

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

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

From The Guardian ● Nov. 29, 2012

The crosses being put in at the same time as the overcasting of the bars renders some forethought necessary to get each in at just the right time and place.

From Embroidery and Tapestry Weaving by Grace Christie

It is also true that the book can never be rebound, but if the overcasting is properly done, the sewing will last until the book is discarded.

From Library Bookbinding by Arthur Low Bailey

Today every progressive library binder has a special method of overcasting and each claims that his method is the best.

From Library Bookbinding by Arthur Low Bailey

Heavy rain-clouds were overcasting the sky when we set out, and we had scarcely covered the eleven miles of unmade road that connects Batala with Gadian when the downpour commenced, and continued throughout the day.

From Among the Wild Tribes of the Afghan Frontier A Record of Sixteen Years' Close Intercourse with the Natives of the Indian Marches by T. L. (Theodore Leighton) Pennell