adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
cloudy/dull/overcast (= with clouds )
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Cloudy skies were forecast.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
day
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Fiction: You can't get burned on a cloudy day .
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The sky was the color of an iced-over pond on a cloudy day .
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Faint scattered sunlight does reach the surface, as on a very cloudy day on Earth.
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You can burn just as easily on a cloudy day as on a bright one.
sky
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Britain's cloudy skies are only partly to blame for this poor performance.
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He looked around, but the streets were empty, cloudy skies indifferent.
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As she did so, the windscreen reflected the cloudy sky back at her as a white sheet.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a cloudy day
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You can still get sunburnt on a cloudy day.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But the only thing there was a fragile gecko, which clung splay-footed to the wall and watched me with cloudy eyes.
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He looked around, but the streets were empty, cloudy skies indifferent.
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He looked at the water going cloudy pink.
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I'd tell myself that the sky only looked grey because it was really still night-time, not because it was cloudy .
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In the partly cloudy moonlight, I checked my watch: 0200.
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Their eyes met through the cloudy plastic of the window.
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There was one rather cloudy window.