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

The fishtail halter dress, made from an African wax Akara fabric picked out by Mpamaugo’s mother, was a medley of shapes, patterns and colors.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 9, 2026

In the third picture in the carousel, Swift, wearing a Ralph Lauren halter neck dress and diamond encrusted Cartier watch, flashes her engagement ring - a cushion cut diamond on a gold band.

From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2025

She wore a white mini skirt, a sparkly white boa, and a powder blue halter top with matching cowboy boots.

From Salon ● Apr. 23, 2024

Nico tied the ends of the ropes together, making a halter.

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan

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

Just behind the trailing edge of each wing they had "halteres": small rods with round balls on their ends.

From Time Magazine Archive

The only order having but two wings, the hind pair replaced by a pair of small, slender filaments clubbed at tip, and called halteres, poisers, or balancers.

From Directions for Collecting and Preserving Insects by C. V. Riley

You sense them placing their heads directly into the halters the author has made for them.

From New York Times ● Sep. 21, 2020

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

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

Shall the Man of the Year now be haltered by denial of the help he asked for in his Inaugural?

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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

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

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

Selling a Wife.—What is the origin of the popular idea, that a man may legally dispose of his spouse by haltering her, and exposing her for sale in a public market?

From Notes and Queries, Number 183, April 30, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc by George Bell

They 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 The Arabian Art of Taming and Training Wild and Vicious Horses by P. R. Kincaid