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 Harper, Charles G. (Charles George)
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
When his car—he called it "the bus"—was agreeable, he went awheel in search of amusement.
From Gigolo by Ferber, Edna
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