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
The pity is that these thorough-going admirers of days as dead as those of the Pharaohs were so largely “mute, inglorious Miltons,” and have left so small a record of their stirring times awheel.
From The Portsmouth Road and Its Tributaries To-Day and in Days of Old by Charles G. (Charles George) Harper
All is arranged; the treasure is awheel, And papers, seals, and cyphers packed therewith.
From The Dynasts by Thomas Hardy
Which one of us, whether afoot, awheel, on horseback, or in comfortable carriage, has not whiled away the time by glancing about?
From The Farringdons by Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler
And I don't feel exactly comfortable seeing him tramping along when most people are awheel.
From Dangerous Days by Mary Roberts Rinehart
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