feel out

VERB
  1. try to learn someone's opinions and intentions
    I have to sound out the new professor
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How To Use feel out In A Sentence

  • She was starting to feel out of place in her dress slacks and matching jacket.
  • So, if you want to get close, maybe try to feel out her worldview before you feel her up.
  • These activists don't want to feel out of the loop.
  • They can still feel out of place, clumsy and awkward. Times, Sunday Times
  • They can still feel out of place, clumsy and awkward. Times, Sunday Times
  • A moment — and the darkness would reign in her as before; her eyes glower, her fingers feel out graspingly-how much? she would say. The Growth of the Soil
  • A lot of the group who often feel outsiders in their professional lives are offered a sense of being insiders for a change.
  • They can still feel out of place, clumsy and awkward. Times, Sunday Times
  • Mr. ERIC ABAIR (Shrimper): We've got way too much oil in the Gulf not accounted for, and basically the way we feel out here, until it's all gone in the Gulf, nothing should be cut back. Incoming BP Chief: Time To Scale Back Cleanup
  • Troth, my Lord maun be turned feel outright," said the domestic, "an he puts himsell into sic a carfuffle, for onything ye could bring him, The Antiquary — Complete
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