How to Use feeler in a Sentence

feeler

noun
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  • Think of the Equator as a floating brain—a brain with a six-mile-long feeler.
    — Bucky McMahon, Esquire, 14 Sep. 2015
  • Ramos reminds you of the nervous dudes, all antic jokes and feelers, that the young John Leguizamo used to play.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 5 June 2023
  • There were peace feelers being put out at the time by Egypt, by Anwar Sadat.
    — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 16 Nov. 2023
  • To get your hands on one, put out feelers to dealers and auction houses, but be prepared to wait.
    — Jill Newman, Robb Report, 18 Nov. 2023
  • Ottman put out feelers to Fox and he was informed that because the script used core X-Men characters such as Prof.
    — Aaron Couch, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 June 2019
  • Months of feelers with his outreach worker from St. Joseph Center led to an offer of a tent.
    — Doug Smith, Los Angeles Times, 14 Sep. 2023
  • The hackers put out feelers around the scene and found a buyer in the Seychelles who was willing to pay $5,000 for the counterfeit console.
    — Brendan I. Koerner, WIRED, 17 Apr. 2018
  • So are NFL teams even sending out feelers on Kaepernick?
    — Matt Bonesteel, chicagotribune.com, 12 May 2017
  • In this framework, a man, a thinker, can have emotions, but a woman, a feeler, is emotional.
    — Natalie Gil, refinery29.com, 11 July 2023
  • Begin studying for your real estate license and put out feelers for a place of your own.
    — Kristen Radtke, The New Yorker, 7 Feb. 2020
  • The new species are six-gill sawsharks, which have distinctive snouts filled with teeth and catfish-like whiskers or feelers that help them detect prey.
    — Katie Hunt, CNN, 18 Mar. 2020
  • If there are any feelers going out about cost-sharing, that's a likely topic.
    — Eric Talmadge, Fox News, 4 June 2018
  • If there are any feelers going out about cost-sharing, that’s a likely topic.
    — Washington Post, 5 June 2018
  • DeGeare suggests making a pros and cons list before sending that feeler text.
    — Molly Longman, refinery29.com, 30 Oct. 2020
  • My father was nothing if not intense — a deep feeler whose emotions often ran a little too close to the surface.
    — New York Times, 18 July 2022
  • Send out some feeler texts, including one to M, the friend-with-benefits from earlier.
    — The Cut, 10 June 2018
  • In addition, diplomats say, the British, Canadians and Swedes are sending out feelers.
    — Gerald F. Seib, WSJ, 11 Dec. 2017
  • According to Bild, Manchester City, who are in the market for a new central defender this summer, are putting out feelers to try and secure a deal for the Swiss.
    — SI.com, 22 June 2019
  • Cancers are deep feelers who sometimes have a difficult time opening up.
    — Aliza Kelly Faragher, Allure, 16 Oct. 2017
  • Last fall, the airport put out feelers to see if there were any businesses interested in pursuing such projects there.
    — Annie Zak, Anchorage Daily News, 19 July 2019
  • Reach out to your community, Scorpio, and put your powerful feelers out there.
    — Aliza Kelly Faragher, Allure, 25 Sep. 2017
  • The U.K. is already putting out feelers about its future trading relations outside the European Union, which for more than 40 years has handled the country’s trade arrangements with the rest of the world.
    — Stephen Fidler, WSJ, 16 Feb. 2017
  • While other schools in the SEC are making moves, firing coaches and putting out public feelers for their replacements, Arkansas sits.
    — Eric Bolin, ajc, 15 Nov. 2017
  • Its wisp of a body appeared to defy gravity, poised upside down on a white slant of newsprint, its back legs bent like reverse elbows, as the other four legs danced and the feelers explored for something to sustain it.
    — David Rabe, The New Yorker, 1 July 2019
  • If that’s the case, Long is almost certainly putting feelers out there and contacting agents for potential replacements.
    — Eric Bolin, ajc, 6 Nov. 2017
  • Irving didn’t draw any feelers and ultimately signed his one-year tender with the Cowboys with hopes of earning a long-term contract extension next season.
    — Clarence E. Hill Jr., star-telegram, 24 May 2018
  • According to Carly Cassella of Science Alert, the critter boasts a number of features that are not seen in any other modern turtle, like the two rows of tubercles that act like feelers.
    — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 13 Apr. 2018
  • Jordon set them in the right direction, got the word out on campus to see how many students might be interested, put out feelers for a coach and investigated the availability of pool time.
    — Ken Grosse, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 May 2019
  • And while free-agency negotiations can't begin until July 1, only the most naïve believe that feelers aren't put out in advance.
    — Ira Winderman, Sun-Sentinel.com, 15 May 2017
  • Sources tell Billboard Stringer's camp has put out feelers seeking a replacement for at least one other veteran executive as well.
    — Dan Rys, Billboard, 12 May 2017

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