feeler

He decided to try a feeler of a different sort.

Let's put out feelers to our friends in low places, see what they know.

This was said more as a feeler than with any hope of success.

Everyone looked at her, including the extended red eyes on feelers.

The feelers above its staring eyes moved but she could hear nothing.

Then he decided to throw out a feeler of his own.

Then you run out the feelers to the reference points on the face.

The feelers found a deep sense of magic all around the house.

The son has turned down feelers from leagues in other countries.

Everyone else was working, putting out a thousand feelers through space.

He politely turned away both feelers, friends and officials said.

Precisely the sort of feeler he had expected her to make.

What's more, she was already getting feelers from other clients who wanted information on the same subject.

Some also clip the feelers above and below the eyes.

In the meanwhile, he'd put out one or two feelers.

He moved forward a little more and gave it another going over with his long pair of feelers.

From two or three of them tiny black feelers now extended.

The trouble is, the crimes we did stop looked like feelers.

I'd put out feelers, registered an interest, and that was all I could do.

"I put out a feeler on the radio to see if anyone remembers taking a report."

I could do a better job than you, with three legs and one feeler tied behind me.

"Not as such, I was just wondering why none of those feelers has reached my office."

We've got our feelers operating, but so far no concrete information.

As they started back for another load, Frank decided to put out a few feelers.

They put a feeler down into the moisture, and they've started to grow.