What is "put out feelers"

Usage examples of "put out feelers".

Several people in your campaign have put out feelers to various captains and admirals regarding possibly serving as advisors.

He put out feelers, reaching for what was clearly there, but although he could sense it easily, he could not identify it.

Carefully, through his friends among the traders and dealers in furs, he put out feelers.

I've already put out feelers, and the Federation prosecutor will be satisfied if the two of them simply resign their offices and drop out of government for keeps.

They have put out feelers only to those potential buyers they consider likely to be interested in this particular merchandise but too backward to make practical use of it.

If he put out feelers there for militants, he rightly suspected, he would soon be approached by an undercover cop with a Kel transmitter strapped to his leg.

He began to put out feelers of his mind into the multiverse, searching.

If we put out feelers through the diplomatic grapevine to get the other Consortium governments involved, then EFC will still be in the club.

The teachers at the consolidated high school in my native Oklahoma had pointed me toward college and put out feelers for scholarships.

And he had already put out feelers everywhere, for people who would help, people who might want to take them in, people who had large families of their own, or people with no children of their own, but who might be willing to have them.