Examples of 'was afoot' in a sentence
Meaning of "was afoot"
This phrase is typically used to describe a situation or event that is about to happen or is currently happening. It suggests that something is in progress or underway
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There was no doubt that hell was afoot somewhere.
Everyone was afoot at a good hour and going about in preparation for the Ascension.
Centuries of experience told him something was afoot.
Topal Pasha sensing something was afoot ordered a halt and began to deploy his men.
He warned opposition leaders that a crackdown was afoot.
The move towards decimalization was afoot for over a century.
My father was dumbfounded by the suggestion that a coup was afoot.
The murder was afoot.
The local militia commander had been warned that trouble was afoot.
TM was afoot.
It indicated that something new was afoot.
Whatever foul business was afoot this night, he meant to face it.
Diana did know what was afoot.
Something else was afoot in Washington, the regulation and partition of a gigantic market.
I would say something strange was afoot.
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No, something was afoot here . Anyone who runs their hand along the wall would say.
Only a few noticed that something was afoot.
It seems a second game was afoot today, and Lord Bridgerton made certain I play the fool.
The lack of commas suggested something was afoot.
No, something was afoot here.
Then came the industry spin that should have provided a strong clue that something was afoot.
What mystery, what misconduct was afoot in here just now?
But in the high rises of Jakarta a different game was afoot.
In the late 1970s, a movement was afoot to get a legitimate radio station for the communications department.
The great unsocking was afoot.
And last night I saw you leaving his room I would long suspected something was afoot.
The first indicator that something bad was afoot had come on the night of March 25-26.
The action at Ha Ho was the first indication that a major move was afoot.
Above all else was afoot.
I know I have occasionally theorized that a conspiracy was afoot.
Said the game was afoot.
In late October, intelligence wires again reported that a coup against the Diem government was afoot.
But foul play was afoot.
I have outlined a scenario that I sincerely believe is what was afoot.
That a conspiracy was afoot.
It was time for Wilson to approach Hauser and explain what was afoot.
However, The Demoness noticed something peculiar was afoot in that moment.
It was right about then that Coach Fields realized something was afoot.
Hardly had mobilization in Petersburg been completed when a campaign was afoot against “ the enemy within ”.
You couldn't live in that house and not be aware that something was afoot.
Mary Blevins had no doubt a correction was afoot - in time… in time.
He declined, fearing that something more sinister was afoot.
He felt that a plot was afoot.
Stolypin traveled to Kiev, despite police warnings that an assassination plot was afoot.
Realized something was afoot.
As Holmes would have pointed out, during the time in question, something was afoot.
I sensed something was afoot.
Driven by revenge, Gerwain entered the forbidden forest … - but foul play was afoot.
I knew something grand was afoot.
Nevertheless, it seemed that something truly revolutionary was afoot.
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