feel out

Before long, however, he began to feel out of place and went back downstairs for a while to chat up the cook.

She had dropped her flashlight and had to feel out with her hands along the damp earth until she found it.

Aunt Jane's arguments seemed over-ruled in such a pleasant yet decisive manner that she began to feel out-generaled.

Ella would feel out of place in the minister's parlor, that was all.

Bob really had a good head for machinery though, and now he was beginning to feel out his path.

We did not feel out of our place in being present, and I trust it may have its use both on ourselves and others.