afoot

Example Sentences

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The DOJ wants to know if something shady is afoot.

From MarketWatch • May 7, 2026

This is not sufficient, in the view of the Justice Department, to intimate that there’s racism afoot.

From Slate • May 4, 2026

From week to week, I try not to make a big deal of the fact that most SUVs and crossovers, regardless of pedigree, are overweight, top heavy, undersprung and generally clumsy afoot.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 6, 2026

More plans are afoot to show the objects.

From BBC • Jan. 30, 2026

When we were all afoot the guards would take us out to the plant to work; but after the third or fourth of these examinations I was unable to get up.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin