How To Use Afoot In A Sentence
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There's something else afoot, something I will never understand or comprehend.
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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
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Some 25 years ago, plans were afoot to bulldoze one of the most significant buildings in Manchester.
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Plans are also afoot to transform the disused salt mines of Saxony and Thuringia into depositories for toxic waste.
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There is, however, more villainy afoot in this film than the English or the class that they and their American cousins represent.
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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.
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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
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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
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Plans are afoot to stage three soul nights over the next year.
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Meanwhile, celebrations are already afoot.
Times, Sunday Times
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Unless they've some magical beastie to use for it, they've no choice but to move her by horse, wagon, or afoot.
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Using current deposit recycling programs as a model, there's an effort afoot to have manufacturers take responsibility for e-waste.
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Plans are also afoot to introduce a new green bin scheme, which collects compostable waste, including cardboard.
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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.
The Poet Thomas Hardy « Unknowing
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I captured a "secesh" horse found running loose, -- for my own horse had been killed and I had been afoot quite a long time, -- mounted him, and as son as the state of the contest would permit, I rode to Major Sturgis, informed him of Lyon's death, and told him he must assume the command, which he accordingly did.
Forty-Six Years in the Army
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It is hard not to think there was something unpleasant afoot.
Times, Sunday Times
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The team looked fractured from order up on high at the end of the prior season, but something else was afoot which is revealed.
Buzzine » A Ton of TV on DVD and Blu-ray
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There's a scheme afoot to put a motorway through the park.
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One of the adults turns out to be a kindly retired policeman, a little doddy, who knows that something nefarious is afoot but no one else believes him.
UncleBear
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I suppose from the looks of things that I shall have to go afoot the rest of the way.
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Yet there are more sinister happenings afoot, as Count Dracula himself jumps into the mix, searching for a serum to make him invincible.
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Moves are also afoot to remove another obstacle to the merger.
Times, Sunday Times
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Are there more plans afoot for designs with which to taunt the technological world?
Times, Sunday Times
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It is hard not to think there was something unpleasant afoot.
Times, Sunday Times
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The head was last week drafting letters to parents to explain the changes afoot.
Times, Sunday Times
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Plans are afoot to stage a new opera.
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There are people for whom the evil that is afoot in the world has been personalized.
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The summer waned; the cows were turned into the shack, and the most "forehanded" among us began to cut boughs for banking up the house, and set afoot other preparations for winter's cold.
Meadow Grass Tales of New England Life
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But what was afoot was not an encounter between natural forces, or even animals, but people.
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The only evidence of criminal activity afoot was opinion evidence from a former stipendiary steward, who acknowledged he had no prior experience or direct knowledge of Hong Kong racing.
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As they are art college-inspired, there's situationist experimentation afoot.
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A plan was afoot to seize power.
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The game afoot has gone way beyond technology into the realm of perception, where Microsoft Corp holds almost total sway.
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Everybody knew that something awful was afoot.
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It does not suggest that something untoward is afoot.
Christianity Today
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After the night of drunken crime and pie-eyed vandalism that ravaged the country on St Patrick's day, plans are afoot to move the date of the festival for next year's celebration.
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But when key elements like repent are not there, there is something more serious afoot.
Times, Sunday Times
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But now the deer turned to the right and made for a distant thicket, and Lionel saw the young hunter spring from his lagging steed, and, with a stout cord reeled around his arm, dash after the stag afoot, while hounds and hunters panted far behind.
Historic Boys Their Endeavours, Their Achievements, and Their Times
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But to the younger generation, a winter holiday means action- and down through the 'Swamp hollow' and over the hill road they go, afoot or in sleighs, through the drifting snow, to a barn dance at the Centre.
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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.
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There were in consequence substantial changes afoot.
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More changes are now afoot at the school as it attempts to achieve the status of a Specialist Science College.
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There's a jokiness afoot as well, which you recognise from the default tone of modern advertising.
Times, Sunday Times
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You seem to have so many schemes afoot.
A Time of War
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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.
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She went afoot all the way to our house. I founded her sleeping on the grass in the morning.
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There are no wedding plans afoot.
The Sun
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With plans afoot to redevelop the docklands, the castle neatly bookends that aspiration.
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With hindsight, it was clear that something was afoot.
Times, Sunday Times
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She revealed that moves were afoot to send in a representative of the Irish Coastguard Service to mediate between the two sides in about two weeks time to sort out the situation.
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Is there something sinful afoot?
The Sun
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The appointment of senior Wall Street executives to the incoming administration has reinforced the signal to investors that regulatory repeal is afoot.
Times, Sunday Times
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Encounters with the locals suggest that something sinister, and possibly of international significance, is afoot and the suspense keeps mounting.
Times, Sunday Times
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However(Sentencedict), there are plans afoot to see if tutoring in primary schools has any effect on performance later on.
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The other good news is that there are plans afoot for there to be a free festival next year!
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The game's afoot for men of grosser blood.
Times, Sunday Times
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Yeah, I would say we probably have reasonable suspicion that some kind of unlawfulness is afoot somewhere in Gonzales’s statement.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Did Alberto Gonzales Commit Perjury?:
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Vavi on Thursday said there were moves afoot amongst the ANC leadership to oust Mantashe before his term concluded in 2012.
News24 Top Stories
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I dunno how, but de harder I wuk de porer I got, till finally I jes started off afoot an 'alone ter go ter Kansas; an' h'yer I is, ready ter grow up wid de kentry, Marse Hesden, jest ez soon ez I gits ter Sally an 'de chillen.
Bricks without Straw A Novel
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But something is afoot at The Valley.
Times, Sunday Times
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I smiled slightly, ‘The game is afoot: anyone wants out, now's the time to say it.’
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Plans are afoot for a multiple premiere at football pubs across Liverpool.
Times, Sunday Times
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With unprotected pedestrian activity rife in cities, a galosh revival is afoot.
The Time May Be Right for Galoshes to Make a Splash Again
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Plans are afoot to make a sequel to Casablanca.
Times, Sunday Times
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There's snogging aplenty, natch, but something deeper is afoot here, depending on who you listen to.
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Moves are afoot to increase car insurance premiums.
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And there are also plans afoot for Burberry skincare and personal care lines, reports Women's Wear Daily.
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And talk is afoot of a large scale class action discrimination suit to be filed against the university.
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she was afoot when I saw her this morning
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Plans are already afoot to extend the product range and open the label's first flagship Berlin store this year.
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The truth is, I'm beginning to suspect that there may indeed be a "cycling conspiracy" afoot or awheel, though it doesn't involve the UN.
Conspiracy Theory: "Soylent Green is Douches!"
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There's a move afoot to googlebomb amazon described here by generating links to a new definition of amazon rank.
Archive 2009-04-01
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But plans are already afoot to ensure that the festival is revitalised next year.
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The alarm was taken by half a dozen more, and by the time the two boys were afoot and had seized their weapons -- _splash, splash, splash_!
Cormorant Crag A Tale of the Smuggling Days
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Happily, there is a move afoot to accommodate my overwrought correspondent.
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they went to the village afoot
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There's mischief afoot, ie being planned.
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Plans are also afoot to transform the disused salt mines of Saxony and Thuringia into depositories for toxic waste.
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There's something afoot here, but I don't know what it is.
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Plans are afoot to run an indoor football league over two days.
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Moves are afoot in the union to try and end resistance to the reforms.
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Moves are afoot to include some mobile phone textspeak in the official dictionary of the game beloved by generations.
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When the King eaten in hall, the Queen with the King and the knights go to lean at the windows to look at the three damsels and the three white harts that draw the car, and the more part said that the damsel afoot that went after the two that were mounted should have the most misease.
The High History of the Holy Graal
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The whole band was afoot in an instant, clamantly agog.
If I Were King
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Further east, similar moves are afoot.
Times, Sunday Times
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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.
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With the evidence already gathered, the game is afoot, meaning this week is too late to stop sharing those movies and expect to get away with it.
Grab your glocks, hide your files | Letter Never Sent
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There is a movement afoot to release movies to both theaters and DVD at the same time.
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There's even a nascent movement afoot, whose principles involve an acceptance of a herma phrodite's condition as is.
The Choice That Liberals Hate - Robert Knight - Townhall Conservative
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We encourage the moves currently afoot to create a single pastoral organisation covering sheep, cattle, deer, and goats, funded by a single levy.
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But there is a definite sense that change is afoot.
Times, Sunday Times
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There are some movements afoot, seeking to protect the resources which are left and reallocate resources to developing countries in need.
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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.
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Plans are afoot to construct one more platform to station more buses.
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Moves are afoot to give rugby official status as the national sport of the former Soviet republic.
Times, Sunday Times
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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.
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Some three hundred yards away certain French knights, mounted, often two upon one horse, or afoot, were flying from that awful field, striking out to the right in order to clear themselves of the cumbering horde of fugitives.
Red Eve
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He recently grabbed headlines by accusing the local media of preordaining Landrieu the winner, saying, "There's a move afoot today to ensure that we have a majority white council, an inspector general that's white, a district attorney that's white, a U.S. attorney that's white, a head of education that's white.
Salon
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Moves are also afoot to bring Switzerland under renewed scrutiny.
Times, Sunday Times
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Is there something sinful afoot?
The Sun
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One parting shot hower,. with all the Hillary bashing afoot or better state under Petzals foot.
A Savage Attack on Scopes
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Rank-and-file psychiatrists did eventually figure out that a big change was afoot, and much of the ensuing consternation focused on another word slated for elimination—neurosis, which, the new Committee on Nomenclature argued, should not appear in DSM-III because it “assumed…an underlying process of intrapsychic conflict resulting in symptom formation.”
MANUFACTURING DEPRESSION
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It has been hard to persuade Chardonnay and Cabernet drinkers that sherry is worth trying - but change is afoot.
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I rather liked the premise, it sounded like a good comedy to read during a vacation, but then you said "afoot".
HH Com 157
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But look again, because something is afoot.
Times, Sunday Times
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Plans are afoot for an official celebration of the win, and the mayor said that they are already planning for next year.
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There are plans afoot to increase taxation.
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The former president says he also sees an effort afoot to strong-arm undecided superdelegates to make their choice fast.
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Sadly, the library is fast outgrowing itself and plans are afoot for a new building.
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Plans are now afoot for an important exhibition of Canaletto in England.
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Apparently, moves are afoot to ban smoking in public places.
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The city people, those afoot... "Marak shuddered to think of the situation of the hindmost: beshti were some defense.
HAMMERFALL
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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.
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Thankfully, there is a movement afoot in the advertising community to change how it enters, and so defines, your R.A.S. It's called prosocial advertising.
Auren Kaplan: An Evolved Take on Psychology, Brands and Poverty
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Hartmann's article did not change my mind, but it did force me to realize that the issue is really "afoot," as they say.
Capitalism, Fascism, and Socialism
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They were armed, horsed, and charioted; the poor Hebrew wanderers were afoot.
Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte
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The geography of San Francisco is too beautiful to allow seaminess to get much of a foothold, and so along with these barkers there were many tourists afoot, tourists carrying loaves of sourdough bread and Ghirardelli chocolates.
Middlesex
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As we noted on Friday, there's a pretty clear effort afoot to pin the whole intel debacle on the CIA.
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At the present time, plans are afoot to develop the harbour area.
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Promptly followed the dingy train's short run up the shore of the New Canal, and then its stop athwart St. Charles St.eet, under no roof, amid no throng, without one huzza or cry of welcome, and the prompt dispersal of the outwardly burdenless wanderers, in small knots afoot, up-town, down-town, many of them trying to say over again those last words from the chief hero of their four years 'trial by fire.
Kincaid's Battery
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The sites became redundant following a reorganisation of special education, and plans are afoot to sell them for housing.
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Something was afoot, he did know that much, but he was yet to home in on where and what it was.
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Then sir Matthew strake asunder the spear with his sword; and when sir James Lindsay saw how he had lost his spear, he cast away the truncheon and lighted afoot, and took a little battle-axe that he carried at his back and handled it with his one hand quickly and deliverly, in the which feat Scots be well expert, and then he set at sir Matthew and he defended himself properly.
Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series)
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Overall there is a profound sense of estrangement and disappointment afoot in our country.
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Apparently, moves are afoot to ban smoking in public places.
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Plans are also afoot to introduce a new green bin scheme, which collects compostable waste, including cardboard.
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MILD SPOILER ALERT In the episode, change is afoot as TV's most endearing and unaffectedly sexy married couple, Coach Eric and Tami Taylor the sublime Kyle Chandler and Connie Britton face a personal crossroads while Coach's underdog Lions head to the state championship in their last hurrah.
Roush Review: Dim Sunshine, Glorious Justified, FNL Farewell
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At the moment, they face fines of ￡400, but there are moves afoot to introduce stiffer penalties.
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Plans are afoot for a visual art research institute in currently vacant university buildings.
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unhappy caravans, straggling afoot through swamps and canebrakes
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He has the scoop on current initiatives afoot to inform you of the latest flaws and fixes.
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Plans are afoot to hold nights of music and theatre in the grade one listed building.
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Plans are afoot to transform that dream into a reality.
Times, Sunday Times
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There are we are told plans afoot to tax disposable items such as nappies and razor blades as luxury goods in order to reduce the amount of waste sent to landfill sites.
Cutting Their Own Throats
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There is a scheme afoot to improve recreational facilities in the area.
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Moves are afoot to give rugby official status as the national sport of the former Soviet republic.
Times, Sunday Times
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Here and there a man is puffing at his beloved "gasper" with the nonchalance that marks your bull-dog breed when stern work is afoot.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-04-14
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Then the young men ran afoot before her for the prize of a belt and knife, and forsooth she wotted well that were she to run against them with trussed-up skirts she would bear off the prize; but she had no heart thereto, for amidst them all, and her new friendships, she had grown shamefast, and might play the wood-maiden no longer.
The Water of the Wondrous Isles
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City began to sense something concrete may be afoot.
Times, Sunday Times
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Describing what may be afoot is not to advocate it.
Balloon Juice » 2009 » September
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Is she losing her mind or is something nefarious afoot?
Times, Sunday Times
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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.
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Capricorn: When this sign eats in the dark, you know some financial wizardry is afoot.
Horoscope for the week of March 16, 2008
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There is a scheme afoot to improve recreational facilities in the area.
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For all the woolly sort of anti-Americanism afoot within the Canadian liberal-left, it is also true, and not the tiniest bit pathetic, that to formulate a position on the Afghanistan question the Canadian left has in the main simply adopted holus-bolus the American counterculture polemics on Iraq, and changed some names.
Daimnation!: "Hats off to the Canadians"
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Tammuz was immediately suspicious because he knew the man never broke his routines unless something out of the ordinary was afoot.
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Another nice thing about a cane is that it's an indicator to others that Something Is Afoot, and they don't (usually) grumble about your needing to sit while they are standing and often give you a little more space to maneuver.
Mrissa: Milestone
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The Scots who founded the Otago settlement had a great concern with education and from 1858 moves were afoot to build an Athenaeum to contain a reading room, a library and a museum.
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One thing I think is relevant, assuming there ` s a terrorist plot afoot, which is a very big assumption.
CNN Transcript Mar 20, 2007
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There will be more afoot, in other words, than sonic silliness.
IT TAKES TWO TO 'RANGO': Why the animated Depp hit is a very, very good film
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A news media-ignored but very intelligent and articulate movement is afoot to bring this information to everyone.
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There are plans afoot… but it would be premature to talk about them now.
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The Christmas lights have just been erected and already plans are afoot to have an even better display next year.
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Everybody knew that something awful was afoot.
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Carl and Faith were already on their way through the early moonlight to Rainbow Valley, having heard therefrom the elfin lilt of Jerry's jew's-harp and having guessed that the Blythes were there and fun afoot.
Rainbow Valley
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He reported, ‘Plans were already afoot for the Americans to disengage from the city.’
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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.
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There are also changes afoot inside the home.
Times, Sunday Times
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Plans are afoot for a complete refurbishment of the building, and in the meantime Michael is developing the food side of the business.
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Plans are now afoot for a small screen adaptation of the much-loved novel.
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Preparations are afoot, measurements are made, ground is staked out.
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US presidential race hopeful Hillary Rodham Clinton walked somberly into a press conference Tuesday and stood before microphones. Reporters tensed, sensing something big might be afoot.
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Plans are afoot for an informal dance or ceilidh.
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Great plans are afoot to ban smoking in public places, resulting in smokers soon becoming complete outcasts in society.
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But she laughed, and turning a little, pointed to the castle, and said: Nay, sweet lords, but I will fare afoot, such a little way as it is, and I all unwont to the saddle.
The Water of the Wondrous Isles
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When the exact character and effects of their policy defy simple articulation, something inauspicious is afoot.
AKMA’s Random Thoughts
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Plans are afoot to set up a telephone helpline to reach a larger number of people in the city.
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Plans are afoot to make a sequel to Casablanca.
Times, Sunday Times
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Plans are also afoot to transform the disused salt mines of Saxony and Thuringia into depositories for toxic waste.
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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
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Plans are already afoot for a 2017 festival on a similar scale.
Times, Sunday Times
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But there was other work than sonneting afoot that night, and shortly I set about it.
Gallantry Dizain des Fetes Galantes
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Or why have there not been any movements afoot to change the rules to have every football team consist of six men and five women (or vice versa) in effect making them into mixed-gender teams like the Dutch game of "korfball", a kind of basketball played by three men and two women on the same team in which, however, only men can guard men and women can play against women thus in essence perpetuating the gender apartheid within this game itself?
Andrei Markovits: The Last Legitimate Bastion of "Separate but Equal"
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There are plans afoot to launch a new radio station.
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Great stirrings are afoot in digital photography.
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There is a plan afoot to pull down the old building so as to widen the street.
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plans are afoot
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The strictest secrecy was maintained during the subsequent discussions, for premature disclosure of what was afoot was obviously undesirable.
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They were guilty of not advertising that anything untoward was afoot, although they did steal glances up to their captain straining through the binoculars.
THE KANAKA SURF
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A quick look round the research and development facility in Versailles revealed a number of interesting software projects afoot.
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Plans are afoot for the construction of dressing rooms and toilets.
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He went afoot, both that he might arrange many matters, and by way of training them to bear a parting from him.
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From information received, it was thought that some illegal activity was afoot.
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In other words, at the same time the anti-abortionist killers were afoot, (remember them?), we were using the concept of freedom as a public relations cudgel over other nations.
Discourse.net: Textbook Takedown
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There's something afoot here, but I don't know what it is.
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“The game is afoot,” says Lord Buckingham, as he makes up his mind to place Ellen as the next maîtresse en titre.
Exit the Actress
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Tammuz was immediately suspicious because he knew the man never broke his routines unless something out of the ordinary was afoot.
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Yet change is afoot, as new brands enter the mix and others are edited out.
Times, Sunday Times
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There are also plans afoot to float television channels in other South Indian languages over the course of the year.
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There were in consequence substantial changes afoot.
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quail are hunted either afoot or on horseback
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Dirk Nowitzki - Slow afoot; often in mismatches, but not strong enough to guard big people in the post or quick enough to guard smaller defenders on the perimeter.
USATODAY.com - Little defense is offered for early Mavs exits
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In the boardroom there were changes afoot.
A TALE OF FOUR HOUSES: Opera at Covent Garden, La Scala, Vienna and the Met since 1945
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As you may be aware, there is a genteel, non-competitive cycling conspiracy (GNCCC) afoot (or awheel) in New York City, and to a certain extent Robert Sullivan is its literary voice, giving it ready access to media outlets such as the Times.
Archive 2009-09-01
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But I sense a greater spirit of vinous experimentation afoot.
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Thankfully for the Italians there is no such change afoot.
Times, Sunday Times
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there is mischief afoot
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Out the back is a space for all kinds of creative outlets like painting and pottery and plans are afoot for a veggie garden.
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It does not suggest that something untoward is afoot.
Christianity Today
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But in the background moves are afoot that could reap rather more serious rewards for the bank's 1.7 million shareholders.
Times, Sunday Times
