Meanings of tentative feeler in English

He sent out a tentative feeler of thought toward the mind behind that expressionless face.

The terror had stretched out, so to speak, a first tentative feeler toward us and had touched the hearts of each with a horrid directness.

We made a few tentative feelers.

Another, grizzled and shiny with age or moonbeams I could not tell which-pushedlong, tentative feelers into Wallace's cap.

Citing senior European and US officials, the newspaper said European officials have put out tentative feelers to president-elect Barack Obama's team.

Now, for fifty years London, Cobbett's "monstrous wen," has been throwing her tentative feelers into the green Harrow country.

As the sun sent out its first tentative feelers, I watched the gaps between elevations ooze from black to gray to pinkish yellow.