How to Use feeler in a Sentence

feeler

noun
  • Flirting, or putting out feelers, has to be a two-way street.
    — Katie Jackson, Outside Online, 14 Aug. 2024
  • No putting feelers out into the trade market.
    — Zach Harper, New York Times, 2 Feb. 2026
  • Scour your networks, put out feelers and try to stay positive.
    — Harlan Vaughn, CNBC, 23 Mar. 2026
  • Think of the Equator as a floating brain—a brain with a six-mile-long feeler.
    — Bucky McMahon, Esquire, 14 Sep. 2015
  • To get your hands on one, put out feelers to dealers and auction houses, but be prepared to wait.
    — Jill Newman, Robb Report, 18 Nov. 2023
  • If there are any feelers going out about cost-sharing, that’s a likely topic.
    — Eric Talmadge, BostonGlobe.com, 4 June 2018
  • If there are any feelers going out about cost-sharing, that’s a likely topic.
    — Washington Post, 5 June 2018
  • If there are any feelers going out about cost-sharing, that's a likely topic.
    — Eric Talmadge, Fox News, 4 June 2018
  • Begin studying for your real estate license and put out feelers for a place of your own.
    — Kristen Radtke, The New Yorker, 7 Feb. 2020
  • DeGeare suggests making a pros and cons list before sending that feeler text.
    — Molly Longman, refinery29.com, 30 Oct. 2020
  • In this framework, a man, a thinker, can have emotions, but a woman, a feeler, is emotional.
    — Natalie Gil, refinery29.com, 11 July 2023
  • Cancers are deep feelers who sometimes have a difficult time opening up.
    — Aliza Kelly Faragher, Allure, 16 Oct. 2017
  • Ramos reminds you of the nervous dudes, all antic jokes and feelers, that the young John Leguizamo used to play.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 5 June 2023
  • There were peace feelers being put out at the time by Egypt, by Anwar Sadat.
    — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 16 Nov. 2023
  • The singer apparently found the stunt amusing and put out feelers with Andre.
    — Mankaprr Conteh, Rolling Stone, 8 Apr. 2025
  • My father was nothing if not intense — a deep feeler whose emotions often ran a little too close to the surface.
    — New York Times, 18 July 2022
  • Send out some feeler texts, including one to M, the friend-with-benefits from earlier.
    — The Cut, 10 June 2018
  • Last fall, the airport put out feelers to see if there were any businesses interested in pursuing such projects there.
    — Annie Zak, Anchorage Daily News, 19 July 2019
  • Reach out to your community, Scorpio, and put your powerful feelers out there.
    — Aliza Kelly Faragher, Allure, 25 Sep. 2017
  • From fun play-it-loud rock albums to introspective feelers, all are reflective of the time, all still remarkable now.
    — Spin Staff, SPIN, 30 Sep. 2024
  • And our water signs—Cancer, Scorpio, Pisces—are the feelers of the zodiac.
    — Meghan Rose, Glamour, 29 Dec. 2022
  • Ottman put out feelers to Fox and he was informed that because the script used core X-Men characters such as Prof.
    — Aaron Couch, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 June 2019
  • Francona was known to ride a scooter from his place in Cleveland to the stadium and has put out feelers to get a new scooter in Cincinnati.
    — C. Trent Rosecrans, The Athletic, 10 Dec. 2024
  • Meanwhile in Detroit, one news outlet decided to put feelers out across the city to check how viral a scam this scam had become locally.
    — Zak Doffman, Forbes, 11 Mar. 2025
  • Among new markets on the horizon, Bourgeois is also putting out feelers in the fast-growing Middle East.
    — Miles Socha, WWD, 5 Feb. 2025
  • If that is the case, the Pirates should begin putting out feelers and seeing if teams are interested in making early-season trades.
    — Andrew Wright, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 May 2025
  • If that’s the case, Long is almost certainly putting feelers out there and contacting agents for potential replacements.
    — Eric Bolin, ajc, 6 Nov. 2017
  • Exploratory calls and feelers about potential scenarios if one were retained and the other let go have happened in recent days, I'm told.
    — James Brizuela, Newsweek, 5 Jan. 2025
  • In addition, diplomats say, the British, Canadians and Swedes are sending out feelers.
    — Gerald F. Seib, WSJ, 11 Dec. 2017
  • The night before testimony began, Musk had reached out to Brockman in what began as a settlement feeler.
    — Anisha Sircar, Forbes.com, 16 May 2026

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