Sentence examples for not afoot from inspiring English sources

True, the city is not aflame, plague is not afoot.

And the game is once again, not afoot, but "on".

Werner, not fleet afoot, could have crab-walked into the end zone.

A new militant idealism may or may not be afoot and effective in society (if only by torpedoing another Democrat with votes for Ralph Nader), but it shows little promise of making an important difference in art.

The true impact of Yasir's talents have of course been on England's batting - the first Test was lost in the first innings - but change does not feel afoot.

In a breakout year, Anastasia Myskina won the French Open and Maria Sharapova triumphed at Wimbledon, signaling an ascent with roots in Tolstoy, the fall of the Soviet Union, the Olympics, the glamour of Anna Kournikova and the weekend passion, if not nimbleness afoot, of the former Russian President Boris N. Yeltsin.

Tell me there's not a plot afoot here.

April 4, 2014 Otherwise, there's not too much afoot this morning.

Coaches recall a short, pudgy freshman who needed an asthma inhaler and was not particularly fleet afoot.

Baseball players tend to be cautious about their health even when there is not an epidemic afoot, and Brown, 25, a native New Yorker, said that through the evening and the next morning he repeatedly washed his hands and carefully inspected his eating utensils before putting them in his mouth.

The problem is one of attitude, not of dexterity afoot.