overcast
adjective
overspread or covered with clouds; cloudy.
overcasts
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present tense formof overcast (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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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 every drop of blood in the veins is pure a beauteous flush overcasts the young girl's cheek.
From Right Living as a Fine Art A Study of Channing's Symphony as an Outline of the Ideal Life and Character by Newell Dwight Hillis
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
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
