feeler

Example Sentences

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“Putting out a feeler in a noncrisis situation to see what kind of reactions you get is a really valuable thing,” she says.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 23, 2025

Last year, the British dance musician known as Fred Again.. put out a feeler to the Nashville-based alt-rock band Rainbow Kitten Surprise about a possible collaboration.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 6, 2025

“It’s always so exciting when you see someone with such incredible talent and screen presence who then is also such a deep thinker and feeler as a person,” Lister-Jones said.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 21, 2021

In comments caught on tape in the Oval Office, he called it “the most realistic, the most convincing, the most persuasive peace feeler I’ve had since I’ve been president.”

From New York Times • Sep. 3, 2013

Miss Effie Belle had a grim face any time, punctuated by a big pink wart that stuck out from the side of her upper lip like the feeler of a bee.

From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns