feelers
Example Sentences
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Finally, she’s put out feelers to those with private planes, even offering to provide a free solo concert in return for a flight to Wichita.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 8, 2025
The COP30 climate summit in Brazil in November will provide another opportunity to put the feelers out, ahead of the UN Environment Assembly in Nairobi in December.
From Barron's ● Oct. 10, 2025
I’ve been putting out feelers and things like that.
From Salon ● Apr. 2, 2025
“I put out some feelers, and to my astonishment, they said, ‘Yeah, come along,’ ” he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2024
He pushed himself slowly toward the door, still groping awkwardly with his feelers, which he now learned to value for the first time, to check what was happening there.
From "The Metamorphosis" by Franz Kafka
