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

"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

I write down, “black halter top, belt, skirt ...” and then I go back to it.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 15, 2024

I was so shook up, I dropped the halter rope.

From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Third joint of the antennæ long, arista bare; tarsi whitish; wings very slightly greyish, veins pale, of the usual structure; halteres white.

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

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

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

Some are in jogging shorts and sun halters, some in exercise costumes like the ones they used to show on television, body-tight, with knitted pastel leg warmers.

From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood

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

He sits soulnaked, haltered in other men's finery.

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

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

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

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