overcast

On an overcast Friday at Barry Island, Vale of Glamorgan, people's reaction ranged from sceptical to concerned.

From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2026

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

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

Then the plane, already in the overcast, entered into the sightless suspended world that had enveloped Ravenel.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy

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

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

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

Bonaventure seemed scarce less tempest-tossed than he; and all about the school the distress spread as wintry gray overcasts a sky.

From Bonaventure A Prose Pastoral of Acadian Louisiana by George Washington Cable

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

From The Guardian ● Nov. 29, 2012

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

In overcasting, as in old-fashioned whipstitching, the sewer selects a certain number of sheets for sewing.

From Library Bookbinding by Arthur Low Bailey

With all the power of light from the clouds, there was an overcasting of the gloom of evening, a twilight upon the hills.

From Recollections of a Tour Made in Scotland A.D. 1803 by John Campbell Shairp

No pasting on or overcasting to be allowed.

From Bookbinding, and the Care of Books A handbook for Amateurs, Bookbinders & Librarians by Noel Rooke