overcast
adjective
overspread or covered with clouds; cloudy.
had overcast
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past perfectof overcast.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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A cloud had overcast the despot’s brow, for “Boro Winkee,” his favourite war-steed, had that morning fallen down dead whilst exercising in the meadow.
From The Highlands of Ethiopia by William Cornwallis Harris
A light breeze had overcast the stars with thin and fleecy clouds.
From The Desire of the Moth; and the Come On by Eugene Manlove Rhodes
The gathering storm had overcast the entire sky, and as they went on after lunch a rising wind began moaning through the forest.
From The Corner House Girls Snowbound by Grace Brooks Hill
A heavy bank of cloud had overcast the moon, and the packet melted from sight in a blur of darkness.
From Poison Island by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
For this discovery had overcast the happiness of his wooing as a thunder-cloud darkens and blots the smiling life out of a fair valley.
From The Captain of the Kansas by Louis Tracy
