overcast
adjective
overspread or covered with clouds; cloudy.
has overcast
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present perfectof overcast (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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A thick-black Mist has overcast my Sight, and I am not the same: but speak, O speak again, Was it Bonvile?
From The City Bride (1696) Or The Merry Cuckold by Vinton A. Dearing
Let us but hope this cloud, this absence that has overcast all my contentment, may pass away, and I am confident there's a clear sky attends us.
From The Love Letters of Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple, 1652-54 by Edward Abbott Parry
As soon as it appeared, Manning wrote a letter to the New York Herald, contradicting its conclusions and declaring that its publication was 'the first event that has overcast a friendship of forty-five years'.
From Eminent Victorians by Giles Lytton Strachey
The Crown Prince, Carl August, is no more, and a cloud has overcast the joyful and bright days of our native country.
From Memoirs and Correspondence of Admiral Lord de Saumarez. Vol II by Sir John Ross
Manning replied in a private letter: 'My dear Gladstone,' he wrote, 'you say that I am in error in stating that your former pamphlet is the first act which has overcast our friendship.
From Eminent Victorians by Giles Lytton Strachey
