halter

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

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

The comedian started off the night wearing a strapless metallic dress on the red carpet before switching to a halter neck silver sequined gown to kick the ceremony off.

From BBC ● Jan. 6, 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 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

If both halteres are removed, the insect loses its sense of equilibrium, goes into a spin, crashes.

From Time Magazine Archive

Coal-black, shining; antennæ tawny; thorax slightly tomentose; spines of the scutellum and legs white; wings blackish grey, paler towards the hind border, veins black; halteres testaceous.

From Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology by Various

The volumes — evident also in boxy jackets and oversized coats — are balanced by shoulder-baring halters and crop tops.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 22, 2022

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

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

The 2019 lineup will include workshops where attendees can learn how to braid rawhide, make rope halters, dance the two-step and the Virginia reel, decorate leather, roast meat on a spit.

From New York Times ● Sep. 26, 2018

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

Until last summer the Army dozed along with a single, experimental mechanized brigade, and kept this little upstart haltered in the cavalry.

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

Methinks, from the information of the threadbare velvet cloak and the solemn beard, there would be little trouble in haltering yonder ass.

From The Abbot by Sir Walter Scott

About the best we had been able to do had been to agree not to burn down each other's frat houses while we were haltering the Freshmen.

From At Good Old Siwash by George Fitch

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

We’ll try a little haltering for a change.”

From A Daughter of Raasay A Tale of the '45 by Stuart Travis