feelers

He has had some feelers, he says, from a tech start-up—one that he wisely declined to name.

When the latest Roethlisberger incident surfaced, there were reports that the Steelers immediately put out feelers to trade him.

For the figure suddenly began running over the beach on all fours like a beetle, waving its limbs like feelers.

But hapless flight: the Boodah is an octopus whose feelers reach far, and they, within her toils, cannot escape her omnipresence.

I should be ashamed of myself if it weren't constantly before me and if I hadn't my feelers out in more quarters than one.

My pages are but "feelers groping out things and thoughts for further examination."

Instead of darting away, it appears to be held still; and then other feelers bend towards it and hold the victim.