sonder

Non, il me sondait.
No, he's feeling me out.
Le message sondait les cœurs, et amenait les croyants à rechercher une piété réelle, personnelle.
The message was heart-searching, leading the believers to seek a living experience for themselves.
Plus il sondait les Écritures, plus lui apparaissait vif le contraste entre la vérité et les hérésies de Rome.
The more he searched the Scriptures, the clearer appeared the contrast between their truths and the heresies of Rome.
Ils croisèrent en chemin le célèbre alpiniste Heinrich Harrer, qui depuis longtemps sondait la paroi avec sa cordée.
On the ascent they met the famous mountaineer Heinrich Harrer, who had been poking around on the wall with his roped party for quite some time.
Il sondait à présent son fils du regard pour voir s’il était attentif à sa ligne, mais Ching fixait droit devant lui, perdu dans ses pensées.
He stared intently at his son to see if he was paying attention to his line, but Chung was staring straight ahead, lost in thought.
Il est apparu clairement, tout au long des événements dans l'ancienne Yougoslavie, que Belgrade sondait régulièrement la volonté de l'Europe d'intervenir et qu'elle en concluait chaque fois que l'Europe réagirait tardivement et mollement.
The one thing which has been clear in the whole crisis of former Yugoslavia is that Belgrade has regularly made assessments of Europe's willingness to act and concluded that we would always act late and weakly.
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