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Example sentences for: afoot

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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.
Plans are afoot to build hotels all along the 22 km (14 miles) of shell-shaped beaches on Cayo Coco, but accommodations are currently limited.
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.
However, plans are afoot to knock down and rebuild part of the area and restore some of the square’s former vitality.
I believe it was the transformation of Maria Bartiromo into a household name that told me that something new was really afoot.