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Example sentences for: afoot

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Though intelligence gave no clear indication of what might be afoot, some intelligence reports mentioned chemical weapons, pointing toward work at a camp in southern Afghanistan called Derunta.
It was not until we found a row of old men peering through the bars of the Luxembourg Gardens, mourning the death of their favorite old trees, that we realized something was afoot.
A similar ratcheting up is afoot in the Microsoft wars, with, the NYT front reports, thirteen states planning a joint antitrust action, separate from the pending federal case against the company, to block the release of Windows 98.
Bills are afoot in the House and Senate to outlaw online gambling before it really takes root.
To Mr. Gottlieb's gimlet eye, however, there is mischief afoot.