Example sentences for: afoot

How can you use “afoot” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Bills are afoot in the House and Senate to outlaw online gambling before it really takes root.

  • 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.

  • Similar initiatives are afoot in medical student organizations around the world as we consider appropriate relationships with industry.

  • Recent budget cuts have postponed the demolition of the Palast, and there is a movement afoot to preserve it as an historic monument.


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