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
We had come to Calais for the purpose of crossing the Channel for a little tour awheel amid the natural beauties and historic shrines of Merry England.
From The Automobilist Abroad by Mansfield, M. F. (Milburg Francisco)
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.
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 Fowler, Ellen Thorneycroft
And I don't feel exactly comfortable seeing him tramping along when most people are awheel.
From Dangerous Days by Rinehart, Mary Roberts
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