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Usage examples of feelers.

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

It spun a yard away, but in a flurry of legs, feelers, and claws, it scurried toward her again.

However, her numb right leg failed to support her and she fell face to feelers with a dozen hatchlings.

They could see the big lobsterlike head clearly, long feelers waved in the air in front of it.

She turned her head and glimpsed something like an enormous lobster peering down at her, long feelers waved around her head.

A face like that of a giant lobster, with long feelers that waved about her head.

The Bulmunk did nothing but sit, squashed up in its seat, with its feelers waving around above its lobsterlike head.

Its feelers waved frantically around as it sifted the immediate future for the correct actions.

What had been hair and beard had transformed into spiny filaments that made John think of insect feelers, or insect limbs.

I did my bloodhound bit, and the Embassy staff have also put out their own feelers, and if you ask me they even set one of their Intelligence bods on to it on the quiet, on account of the queries that were popping up everywhere.

Perhaps they functioned as feelers to educate the animal as to the nature of its surroundings.