Insect's appendage

Usage examples of feeler.

French, with his cavalry, pushed out feelers, and coasted along the edge of the advancing host.

With that the lobster brushed by them and hustled off the way they had come, feelers atwitch with anticipation.

At the base of the feelers the biologist noticed huge bladders that glowed inside and seemed to be transmitting the star-like flashes along them.

Ironically, her title was psychometrist, even though it was far removed from her ability as a feeler.

With dish antennae they watched the road, and with magnetic feelers they felt at the guiding strips of steel in the roadbed and were given guidance thereby, as they rushed along the pink, fluorescent river of oiled concrete.

A tiny ball of earth is held between the fangs and is supported by the palpi, or feelers, which are little arms employed in the service of the mouth-parts.

When Pedro squinted at the two American girls as they walked from their taxi into the hotel, his Stygian eyes blinked more rapidly than usual down the slopes of his nose, and his pilous antennae vibrated like the feelers of a roach sensing feasts beneath the kitchen sink.

Gusts of warm well-being spread through Quath as feelers stole into her mind, sensing all.

From the screenless window a fly came looping in, made tentative passes at the inkwell on the desk pad, then settled down on the desktop and rubbed its feelers contentedly.

No insect-like, vermiculate or crustacean Abominable, no twitching feelers, rasping wings, slimy coils, curling tentacles, no monstrous union of superhuman intelligence and insatiable cruelty seemed to him anything but likely on an alien world.

His chest was hairless, massive, signified by what must have been at least a hundred tattoos of identical cartoonish red ants with goofy popped eyes and oversized feelers.

She walked into the woods with the coachwhip, using its long butt as a feeler in the dark.

And then he see how it was, and he was the maddest man--he set the frog down and took out after that feeler, but he never ketched him.

The fleshy feelers on the underside of its toothless mouth gave the ancient, sharklike fish a fearsome appearance, but its diet consisted of invertebrates and small fish foraged from the bottom.

The eyestalks bobbed above her, then the feelers swung over and probed her midsection.