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
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
The day was gray and overcast, and it was Deen leaving, and Jinny calling out, “Stay!”
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
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
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
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
“I am, Peggy,” answered the lady a look of anxiety overcasting her face.
From Peggy Owen Patriot A Story for Girls by Lucy Foster Madison
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
The object of the overcasting is to prevent raveling while working the buttonhole and the fewer stitches which will accomplish this purpose the better.
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
It was as if a shadow were overcasting the bright joy of her home-coming.
From The Rosie World by Parker Fillmore
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"Marriage is a Private Affair" by Chinua Achebe
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