awheel
Britishadverb
Example Sentences
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Last week, with the blessing of the Postmaster General, he was awheel in one of the strangest contraptions that ever carried Uncle Sam's post.
From Time Magazine Archive
And I don't feel exactly comfortable seeing him tramping along when most people are awheel.
From Dangerous Days by Rinehart, Mary Roberts
Then, too, in spite of all care and pioneering, awheel of the waggon would sink into some hollow or be brought heavily against the side of a rock.
From The Silver Canyon A Tale of the Western Plains by Hildibrand, Henri Théophile
Our young couples found society awheel valid as that abiding under permanent roof.
From 54-40 or Fight by Hough, Emerson
And now I am again in the streets of the city, rattling with the racing flotilla of things awheel.
From Europe After 8:15 by Benton, Thomas H.
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