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
The Cudahy council’s second-in-command seems to have recorded the clip at a party, judging by her black halter top, bright red lipstick, fresh hairstyle and fancy earrings, with club music thumping in the background.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2025
The barn was darkening gradually and, in their stalls, the horses shifted their feet and rattled the halter chains.
From "Of Mice and Men" 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
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
Deep black, shining, very minutely punctured; head smooth; antennæ piceous; posterior tarsi whitish, with black tips; wings limpid, veins whitish, black towards the base; halteres snow-white.
From Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology by Various
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 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
Shall the Man of the Year now be haltered by denial of the help he asked for in his Inaugural?
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
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
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
We’ll try a little haltering for a change.”
From A Daughter of Raasay A Tale of the '45 by Stuart Travis
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
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