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 someone invents the safety bicycle, and in a trice all America, man, woman and child, is awheel.
From A Librarian's Open Shelf by Bostwick, Arthur E.
She passed groups in the avenue, some, like herself, awheel.
From The Red Derelict by Mitford, Bertram
But bicycles were ubiquitous at Oxford, and doubtless of the greatest service; and my young Benedictines and I went far afield awheel on architectural and other excursions.
From A New Medley of Memories by Hunter-Blair, David
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