What is "feel around"

Usage examples of "feel around".

He cleaned out the cable jacks with practiced ease, inserting the swab without needing to feel around for the openings.

I think it was caught in his gown, but I dared not feel around for it.

Less than a minute later she came out, pretended to feel around in her purse for her car keys while looking up and down the street, and got in a Dodge sedan and pulled out into traffic.

It gave him something to pull down on, and a point to feel around.

Using irritation to cover any bud of genuine concern, she decided not to feel around for a towel.

She did not wake up when he slid the dresser drawer open and stood on tiptoe to feel around for the gun.

He watched as the inspector squeezed a few bags, then plunged his hands deep into the bundles of clear plastic to feel around in the corners.

Then feel around on deck and try to find something to use as a club.

I felt the same feeling coming from him that you can feel around some highly religious person who knows God only as a stern implacable vengeful deity, impatient of worthless man, waiting only for an unguarded moment to strike him down in his sin.

As the boys began to feel around in their dark prison, their fingers came into contact with boxes piled up.

The men shouted in confusion and began to feel around the walls like madmen, trying to find the shaft.

Pattie used three of her eight limbs to feel around the architecture, testing the unit.