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
Versace’s Marian halter reflected the larger shift away from institutional religion toward individual spirituality.
From Salon ● May 17, 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
Jess lifted Jody down and then caught the stallion by its broken halter rope.
From "The Red Pony" by John Steinbeck
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
Just behind the trailing edge of each wing they had "halteres": small rods with round balls on their ends.
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
Wings blackish brown; stigma and veins black; halteres apple-green.
From Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology by Various
They included layered and flowing halters and skirts secured by multi-notched belts, or a gray hoodie over a rag-tattered skirt.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 21, 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
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
In stables horses shook their halters and whinnied.
From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes
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
"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
We’ll try a little haltering for a change.”
From A Daughter of Raasay A Tale of the '45 by Stuart Travis
He thought it was a good deal like bottling an annoying ghost and selling him for clarified moonlight; or like haltering a nightmare and putting her to the cart.
From Cobwebs from an Empty Skull by Ambrose Bierce
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