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
The beloved “Sesame Street” character put feelers out into the ether Monday, the final Monday in what feels like the longest January ever, checking to see how everyone was doing with a seemingly innocuous tweet.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 31, 2024
Its first moves, the first feelers of its strength, had been checked upon its western line, southward and northward.
From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien
