halter
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Silva wore a long sequined gold dress with a halter neckline paired with bangles and gold pumps.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 27, 2026
"This one's already a champion," smiles Seth, walking a young white Holstein calf on the halter.
From BBC ● May 27, 2026
Versace’s Marian halter reflected the larger shift away from institutional religion toward individual spirituality.
From Salon ● May 17, 2026
Cyrus had changed during the course of the show from a black leather Saint Laurent halter dress to a floor-length gown by Maison Alaia, and she wanted to make sure the crowd took note.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 3, 2025
A boy had a line of bumps upon his neck like a halter.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson
Instead, the flies sense change with two biological gyroscopes called halteres.
From New York Times ● Mar. 19, 2014
The Greeks probably started from a standstill and swung handheld weights, known as halteres, to provide momentum on takeoff and allow them to extend their feet farther forward on landing.
From Slate ● Jul. 31, 2012
If both halteres are removed, the insect loses its sense of equilibrium, goes into a spin, crashes.
From Time Magazine Archive
If these "halteres" are cut off, the fly is like an airplane lost in a cloud with all its instruments out of order.
From Time Magazine Archive
Immediately behind the wings of flies two curious knobbed organs are to be observed; these are considered to be rudimentary hinder wings by entomologists, and are called the halteres.
From The Dawn of Reason or, Mental Traits in the Lower Animals by James Weir
Now several of her neighbors raise goats, and the Cloughs can be seen walking their trio through town on halters, or on nearby Canfield Mountain just to get them in shape for the elk-packing season.
From Washington Times ● Feb. 17, 2020
Texas athletics spokesman John Bianco said “all established safety and security measures were in place for Bevo” at the Sugar Bowl, including two halters, two chains and six handlers to hold him.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 1, 2019
Joe and the others hurried to get halters onto their horses before cutting them loose, so they could be caught and identified later.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 29, 2018
There, she grabbed her horses’ halters and ran them to a clearing, where people with horse hauling trailers waited to take them away and firefighting helicopters landed right next to the animals.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 21, 2016
The horses stamped and snorted, and they chewed the straw of their bedding and they clashed the chains of their halters.
From "Of Mice and Men" by John Steinbeck
Andrea Pfeiffer, the owner of Chocolate Horse Farms, said that one horse refused to be haltered, so she had to leave him behind.
From New York Times ● Oct. 17, 2017
Years from now, they will be talking about how they haltered and groomed the legendary Stonestreet mare Rachel Alexandra and her beloved son Taco.
From New York Times ● May 31, 2012
He sits soulnaked, haltered in other men's finery.
From Time Magazine Archive
Nelson looked out there, saw Bess, a shaggy black mare, patiently switching her tail, harnessed to an old-time buggy, haltered to a steel trolley-line pole.
From Time Magazine Archive
Billy Buck haltered the mare Nellie and led her out of the pasture.
From "The Red Pony" by John Steinbeck
He flayed Foreign Minister Bonnet of France and the French press for criticizing the House's action in haltering Mr. Roosevelt.
From Time Magazine Archive
We’ll try a little haltering for a change.”
From A Daughter of Raasay A Tale of the '45 by Stuart Travis
Rope halters have caused more horses to hurt or kill themselves than would pay for twice the cost of all the leather halters that have ever been needed for the purpose of haltering colts.
From A New Illustrated Edition of J. S. Rarey's Art of Taming Horses With the Substance of the Lectures at the Round House, and Additional Chapters on Horsemanship and Hunting, for the Young and Timid by J. S. (John Solomon) Rarey
"That would be a case of haltering," returned the other, on which everybody laughed again.
From The Captain of the Polestar by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The directions for haltering are very complete, but to execute them with a colt or horse that paws violently, even in play, with his fore-feet, requires no common agility.
From A New Illustrated Edition of J. S. Rarey's Art of Taming Horses With the Substance of the Lectures at the Round House, and Additional Chapters on Horsemanship and Hunting, for the Young and Timid by J. S. (John Solomon) Rarey
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