afoot

How To Use afoot In A Sentence

• There's something else afoot, something I will never understand or comprehend.
• But in the wider context, something greater is afoot, which is the assembling of all the institutions of State by which one may say "we have become an Independent Sovereign State". Referendum News
• Some 25 years ago, plans were afoot to bulldoze one of the most significant buildings in Manchester.
• Plans are also afoot to transform the disused salt mines of Saxony and Thuringia into depositories for toxic waste.
• There is, however, more villainy afoot in this film than the English or the class that they and their American cousins represent.
• As building work on a £400,000 recreation of historic cottages in Leigh goes full steam ahead plans are already afoot to get the buildings listed.
• For person and complexion they haue broade and flatte visages, of a tanned colour into yellowe and blacke, fierce and cruell lookes, thinne haired vpon the upper lippe, and pitte of the chinne, light and nimble bodied, with short legges, as if they were made naturally for horsemen: whereto they practise themselues from their childhood, seldome going afoot about anie businesse. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
• The beggarwoman slips when she rises up, and the same phrase describes the way in which a rumor rises up among the servants that there is something strange afoot in the bedroom. Reading, Begging, Paul de Man
• Plans are afoot to stage three soul nights over the next year.
• Meanwhile, celebrations are already afoot. Times, Sunday Times