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Sentence Examples There is, however, more villainy afoot in this film than the English or the class that they and their American cousins represent. Some 25 years ago, plans were afoot to bulldoze one of the most significant buildings in Manchester. Although a lock-in in your friendly local pub may be most welcome, product lock-ins are usually a sign that something fishy is afoot. There are people for whom the evil that is afoot in the world has been personalized. Plans are also afoot to place a cycle path along the top of the new wall reaching as far as Shoebury East Beach. More changes are now afoot at the school as it attempts to achieve the status of a Specialist Science College. He added that there were plans afoot to site a taxi rank within a short distance of John Street and Fleet Street. He has the scoop on current initiatives afoot to inform you of the latest flaws and fixes. Moves are afoot to include some mobile phone textspeak in the official dictionary of the game beloved by generations. There's snogging aplenty, natch, but something deeper is afoot here, depending on who you listen to. Most will tell you what a challenge it is to restrain a company of Marines once their blood is up, the scent fresh and the chase is afoot. Plans are afoot to set up a telephone helpline to reach a larger number of people in the city. Unless they've some magical beastie to use for it, they've no choice but to move her by horse, wagon, or afoot. And there are also plans afoot for Burberry skincare and personal care lines, reports Women's Wear Daily. We encourage the moves currently afoot to create a single pastoral organisation covering sheep, cattle, deer, and goats, funded by a single levy. We were appalled to read in your newspaper that there is a scheme afoot to install so-called traffic calming measures in this road. Yet there are more sinister happenings afoot, as Count Dracula himself jumps into the mix, searching for a serum to make him invincible. More movement is afoot as Sunderland sign Tommy Miller from Ipswich Town on a free transfer. As they are art college-inspired, there's situationist experimentation afoot. There is a movement afoot to release movies to both theaters and DVD at the same time. Show More Sentences The former president says he also sees an effort afoot to strong-arm undecided superdelegates to make their choice fast. Something was afoot, he did know that much, but he was yet to home in on where and what it was. Plans are afoot for a visual art research institute in currently vacant university buildings. But plans are already afoot to ensure that the festival is revitalised next year. Happily, there is a move afoot to accommodate my overwrought correspondent. The other good news is that there are plans afoot for there to be a free festival next year! The Christmas lights have just been erected and already plans are afoot to have an even better display next year. With plans afoot to redevelop the docklands, the castle neatly bookends that aspiration. Plans are afoot for an official celebration of the win, and the mayor said that they are already planning for next year. Sadly, the library is fast outgrowing itself and plans are afoot for a new building. There is even a plan afoot to offer half-year membership for half subs, in a membership drive to be held in the ground later this month. Using current deposit recycling programs as a model, there's an effort afoot to have manufacturers take responsibility for e-waste. Plans are afoot for a complete refurbishment of the building, and in the meantime Michael is developing the food side of the business. Out the back is a space for all kinds of creative outlets like painting and pottery and plans are afoot for a veggie garden. And talk is afoot of a large scale class action discrimination suit to be filed against the university. Plans are also afoot to introduce a new green bin scheme, which collects compostable waste, including cardboard. There are also plans afoot to float television channels in other South Indian languages over the course of the year. Plans are already afoot to extend the product range and open the label's first flagship Berlin store this year. The sites became redundant following a reorganisation of special education, and plans are afoot to sell them for housing. He went afoot, both that he might arrange many matters, and by way of training them to bear a parting from him. Show More Sentences There's something else afoot, something I will never understand or comprehend. She went afoot all the way to our house. I founded her sleeping on the grass in the morning. I suppose from the looks of things that I shall have to go afoot the rest of the way. There are some movements afoot, seeking to protect the resources which are left and reallocate resources to developing countries in need. Plans are afoot to hold nights of music and theatre in the grade one listed building. Now that Gordon is back in harness at the club, plans are afoot to create a section of the Bury FC website devoted to the history of the club. Plans are afoot to refashion the uniform in a bid to make the movement founded by Lord Baden-Powell more appealing to teenagers in the cyber-age. Attempts are also afoot to promote the screw pine and other plants for creating natural barriers in place of sea walls, which has been discarded in most of the countries. Plans are afoot to construct one more platform to station more buses. Some also say they see changes afoot among the Minangkabau that may be weakening the adat system. The very fact that so many troops co-existed with so many militants meant some kind of complicated alliances were afoot. Even the World Heath Organization, which has plenty to worry about in impoverished nations, knows there is big trouble afoot. The game is afoot, and all concerned parties are watching closely to see how things play out. Those interested in Post palace intrigue, though, wondered if something else was afoot with the announcement. Their Internet connection is acting up, so I mucked about and deduced that either Shaw is having issues or stranger things are afoot, then promptly fell asleep. Using his rapier-like jab and speed afoot, Ali earned a lopsided decision in a bout that was physically much tougher than the final outcome indicates. Plans are now afoot for a small screen adaptation of the much-loved novel. Preparations are afoot, measurements are made, ground is staked out. Plans are afoot for the construction of dressing rooms and toilets. At the present time, plans are afoot to develop the harbour area. Show More Sentences Plans are afoot to stage three soul nights over the next year. Plans are afoot to run an indoor football league over two days. Although they went afoot they expected to come back mounted for when they raided another tribe they depended on stealing enough horses to get away on. There are also plans afoot for a parking lot and visitors' center, which will be housed in a turn-of-the-century log cabin some distance from the crater. There is also a move afoot to abolish bearer share regimes that do not facilitate a record of the owner, as ownership is passed by delivery of the shares. Moves are afoot in the union to try and end resistance to the reforms. But I sense a greater spirit of vinous experimentation afoot. As I headed home, the outcome of the election was still in doubt as spinmeisters traded accusations back and forth, and e-mails claimed grand conspiracies afoot in Florida. Major plans are now afoot to completely transform the Lower Lea Valley as the focus of London's 2012 Olympic bid, complete with sports stadia and athletes' village. I hadn't known it when I got hired, but I probably should have been clued in something was afoot when I saw the pet Pekinese of the co-owner of the company. After more than a decade of disuse since being given a half-million pound revamp, plans are afoot to open part of Hellifield Station in time for Easter. The same impulse is afoot in less trendy parts of the country. While those Roman, urban, republican sensibilities persisted, there were many movements and changes afoot. With a ghillie lacing system and fully gusseted tongue, you always will feel sure afoot. There is a whiff of Trudeaumania afoot again, as there was in 1968 when Pierre became prime minister. Sunny moves through these final days quickly, easily, buoyed by routine even though change is afoot in all directions. Further plans are afoot to double the track from Monkstown to Templepatrick, to further increase capacity on the Londonderry line. I was up betimes in the morning, but Holmes was afoot earlier still, for I saw him as I dressed, coming up the drive. Plans are afoot to build a superjail to hold intractable prisoners, and the state is adding another 500 cells to the prison system to cope with overcrowding. They think a new Pentecost is afoot, in which the Holy Spirit brings millions the good news of salvation in the hereafter and real blessings in the here and now. Show More Sentences The fact that the room was still in darkness made it obvious that something nefarious was afoot. Plainly there was dirty work in preparation at the cross-roads. Further changes were set afoot with a redivision of power in Europe. There was nothing to be afraid of that Ronny could see. And yet he was himself thrilled to an irrational memory-ridden fear of some cowardice somewhere afoot. Shannon, 14, and Trisha, 11, now take a little more convincing that leprechauns are afoot, but 9-year-old Bonnie still lets her imagination soar, her father said. Within two years, war was declared against France and the Emperor was once again welcome in England, where plans were afoot to betroth him to Catherine's daughter Mary. Celebrations are also afoot for the 125-year anniversary of the Rhaetian Railway, which operates most of the trains in this spectacular land of Heidi. And the initial anapestic foot of the second line seems to slide down after the discovery in the first line that not trochees but iambs are afoot. When a man who cut his second-row teeth in the bearpit of Kingsholm starts verbalising the physicality of any match, it is clear something extraphysical could be afoot. According to reports, changes are afoot at A-B breweries around the country, as the company rejiggers its production system to address falling demand for beer. Mindful of tensions afoot, driving through the heart of the country, he gets a crash course in Balkanized American politics and an irritated public inflamed by talk radio. While only one company, Isotron, currently has a MAFF licence to irradiate food, moves are afoot in the US to make irradiation of foods more widespread. Examples from Classical Literature Numbering many times six hundred, they advance afoot, creeping at a pallbearer's pace behind a barrage fire. When Jack cures his toothache with a box of soldiers, who knows what world-shaking evolutions are afoot? They wor tellin' it at th' 'Red Cat' tother neet, bod I could hardly hear for th' gam at wor afoot. There I was, afoot, an' no tellin' how far from anywheres or what direction it laid. Crowds streamed by afoot, asaddle and awheel, all bound for a common destination. The stout Abbot and his jolly monks, us setting off afoot with a mule train, the prayer delivered over us as we start. Jack was fruitfully penitent, and there was a hilarious scheme for the day afoot, with parks and picnics and Pilsener in it. Every road teemed with a chattering crowd of men and boys afoot and on horses. After a little conversation to assure themselves that there was no skullduggery afoot, the truckers consented. Such an incumbrance would have been troublesome to them, travelling, as they were, afoot. Already the Ulstermen were rising, and 30,000 rebels were afoot in Wexford. He thought of turning his horse loose and ambushing the mountainmen, afoot. He was goin' to mooch aroun' Buckin' Horse till I creeps in afoot, then we was goin' out. Leaving his baggage at the dak bungalow, he strolled afoot to the large and handsome mansion indicated. But the goer afoot must not be conceived as primarily an engine of muscle. My stationmaster used to comfort me with the promise that my aquarian duties would very soon be over as plans were afoot to close the box. I don't propose to go over to the tide mill afoot and alone. North Korea's apparent immutability makes any unexpected development seem like a sign that something major is afoot. Vast crowds lined the route, afoot and in every kind of vehicle. Once afoot, it was not long before the company began to disperse. Show More Sentences When a man is afoot at cock-crow much may be done in the day. The man by his nod seemed to show he understood what was afoot. The Lambs were going to be enraged when they learned what was afoot. Across a green open country came clean-limbed young men, some afoot, some mounted upon horses. They were afoot, walking at Carinthia's pace before half-past seven. Was carney about to set him afoot just as he had set afoot Sergeant Heath? A chit-extemporized dance was afoot on the close-cropped turf. The dales were mounted and Ward was afoot and leading a pack-horse. My will is, that we two champions be all alone and afoot on the eyot. She knew the fire alarm signals and when anything momentous was afoot. As a matter of fact, there was the finest sort of a fracas afoot. He hastened to assure the whooper that he was awake and afoot. But when they reached the pile-driver, they found trouble afoot. The better to do so, I went afoot, armed with a Henry rifle and carrying three days' rations in my haversack. He followed a youth who was the quickest afoot and the readiest laugher. They were both afoot, having left their horses at the rancheria. And yet much of the adventuring of life has been gained afoot. They watched the squad in blue, now afoot, plod on down the road. Your letter tells me that something special is afoot with you, for I find in it so much about paradise and spring and sweet odours and the songs of birds. They all went to walk in the garden until dinner was served, without any perception on the part of Madame du Bousquier that a little conspiracy was afoot. Show More Sentences If the banners and flags are shifted about, sedition is afoot. He probably reached there about two or three o'clock in the morning, after having been afoot among the rocks and glaciers during two days and two nights. But having once decided to try the higher and drier levels, she pressed back eastward, marching afoot towards the village of Chalk-Newton, where she meant to pass the night. The indoor milkmaids, Marian and the rest, seemed to guess that something definite was afoot, for they did not force any remarks upon her in the bedchamber. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of afoot? Words that rhyme with afoot What is the adverb for afoot? What is the adjective for afoot? What is the noun for afoot? Translations for afoot Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words afonso aflutter aflush a flock of sheep a flock of geese afloat afore aforegoing aforehand aforementioned aforenamed aforesaid 5-letter Words Starting With a af afo afoo