Sentence Examples

1. If accurate, then plans are afoot to build a resort on the southern edge of La Quemada, one that cuts into the mountainside on land protected under the biosphere ruling.
2. He was a skilled hunter however, and enjoyed spending time on horse or afoot, hunting with spear and bow in the lands surrounding Solenta.
3. I was up betimes in the morning, but Holmes was afoot earlier still, for I saw him as I dressed, coming up the drive.
4. I know you have only just put your father in the ground, but terrible things are afoot.
5. But one of the bodies was found by a Mestarn who discovered that it had been drained of its gift and they realized something sinister was afoot.
6. The sounds of the alarm were, therefore, hardly uttered before two hundred men were afoot, and ready for the battle or the chase, as either might be required.
7. I have learned that the swiftest traveller is he that goes afoot.
8. With no way to transmit the information off the planet, he hoped that the damage had not been too severe and that the armed forces would discover what was afoot before too many more lives were lost.
9. The dog, roused from the hedge by their approach, sensed a game afoot and led them a merry dance around the garden until Kate managed to stamp on his trailing lead.
10. The game was afoot or, by that time probably abed, and I needed to either use it or get off the pot.