overcasts
- present tense form of overcast (3rd person singular).
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
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 Jókai, Mór
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 Bowring, Edgar Alfred
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 Cable, George Washington
