How to Use by feel in a Sentence

by feel

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• These glow-in-the-dark eye stickers will make people who pass by feel like they're being watched.
  — Angela Belt, House Beautiful, 6 Sep. 2022
• A lot of the craft is performed intuitively, and by feel, and Wade wants to teach that too.
  — Lisa Futterman, Chicago Tribune, 29 Sep. 2022
• Others have relatives and friends who cook by feel and intuition.
  — Washington Post, 8 Oct. 2020
• What once was an offense dictated by feel and smarts has turned into a rote exercise of clank.
  — Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 27 Nov. 2025
• Drivers can usually identify and use them with a glance or, in some cases, by feel alone.
  — Chris Teague, AJC.com, 13 Mar. 2026
• The snout is soft, long and highly innervated, made for finding insects and grubs by feel.
  — Lyanda Lynn Haupt, Discover Magazine, 19 Nov. 2013
• That’s quite a pace range, which is just another reason why learning to run steady runs by feel is important.
  — Jeff Gaudette, Outside Online, 8 Apr. 2021
• The recipe was based on Jakob’s family recipe and made by the restaurant cook by feel and memory.
  — Elizabeth Karmel, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2023
• Some of my steering is done by sight, but some of it is also done by feel through the pressure and resistance within my hands.
  — Macaela MacKenzie, SELF, 2 Feb. 2022
• Medicine had long been synonymous with the laying on of hands—with diagnosis by feel and the use of healing touch.
  — Jessica Wapner, The New Yorker, 6 Nov. 2021
• Checking by feel is the most reliable way to determine what needs water before wilting starts.
  — Miri Talabac, baltimoresun.com, 11 Aug. 2021
• Doctors perform this procedure entirely by feel, with just one finger.
  — Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 19 July 2016
• Those years of experience have made Stanley into a baker who can create batters and doughs by feel.
  — Nicole Haase, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 30 Nov. 2021
• Most of the testing is done by feel, with two technicians gliding down a hill, side by side, on two pairs of skis with different waxes to see which pair is faster.
  — Nathaniel Herz, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Feb. 2022
• The budding naturalist soon learned to identify plants by feel, touching their hairs with his lower lip and their stamens and pistils with his tongue.
  — Quanta Magazine, 24 Aug. 2020
• The lake bed beneath the water has almost no visibility, which meant human divers had to basically search by feel.
  — Morgan Hines, USA TODAY, 12 July 2020
• Sang likes his athletes to monitor effort—not with GPS watches or heart-rate monitors but by feel.
  — Cathal Dennehy, Outside Online, 6 Nov. 2021
• And learning to pay attention and train by feel is a key to both effectively pushing the edge for top performance and to a lifetime of running success.
  — Jonathan Beverly, Outside Online, 15 Dec. 2020
• Outdated ultrasound devices left doctors at some hospitals in that part of the country to feed tubes into patients’ arteries by feel alone.
  — Christopher Weaver, WSJ, 5 May 2022
• Fine motor skills, involving all components by feel, remain extremely challenging for robot hands.
  — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 10 Sep. 2025
• Tiny divots tapped into the nose allow soldiers to determine the shell’s precise weight by feel at night, a critical data point for accurately firing the weapon.
  — Rebecca Lieberman, New York Times, 2 Feb. 2023
• Octopuses typically hunt by feel, stealthily sticking their tentacles into crevasses to feel, taste, and flush out prey such as crustaceans, snails, and small fish.
  — Byhannah Richter, science.org, 23 Sep. 2024
• Lue prefers to coach by feel, and in a preseason survey NBA general managers again called him the best coach at making in-game adjustments.
  — Andrew Greif, Los Angeles Times, 21 Oct. 2022
• Similarly, the automatic transmission is actuated by four simple buttons that are easy to actuate by feel.
  — Tribune News Service, cleveland, 3 Oct. 2020
• Alas, Americans have been stuck adapting to Covid partly by feel while being systematically misled about its true prevalence (higher than they’ve been told) and its death risk (lower than they’ve been told).
  — WSJ, 14 Dec. 2021
• Nissan unfortunately went all-in on haptic-touch buttons on the dash and the console, meaning nothing can be operated by feel—and the driver-attention monitor is quick to scold those whose eyes are diverted from the road.
  — Joe Lorio, Car and Driver, 27 May 2023
• María de Lourdes Ortiz Zacarías swiftly cuts hundreds of strips of newsprint and colored crepe paper needed to make a piñata, soothed by Norteño music on the radio while measuring pieces by feel.
  — Fabiola Sánchez, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 Dec. 2023