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Example sentences for: afoot

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There is a definite pattern afoot here: At first, the new job is wonderful, the people scintillating and fabulous, the work enticing and exciting.
Now there's a move afoot in Congress to end the program, which the paper reports, might well mean a lot of female subcontractors will go bankrupt.
But they correctly concluded that "Nawaf " and "Khalid"might be part of "an operational cadre" and that "something nefarious might be afoot."
Recent budget cuts have postponed the demolition of the Palast, and there is a movement afoot to preserve it as an historic monument.
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.