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afoot
adjective as in in progress
Example Sentences
Trier trusts his audience to understand that something deeper and more thorny is afoot here, without laying out information plainly.
Something bigger was afoot: that by-election last month was as much about who was going to lose as it was about who was going to win.
But Miss Mortimer’s letter seemed to imply that there was actual trouble afoot.
The game afoot isn’t lost on the State Department.
Lately, gold has been falling alongside U.S. stocks, which suggests a more dire situation for markets could be afoot — especially if it means there is no safe haven for investors to turn to.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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