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
It included biker jackets adorned with bejeweled crosses and, in the finale, a halter top that featured the Virgin Mary made out of a mosaic of jewels.
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
He led her to a secret place far from the house, whetted his pocketknife on a stone, and cut the offending halter of speech.
From "East of Eden" 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 both halteres are removed, the insect loses its sense of equilibrium, goes into a spin, crashes.
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
Calyptrate: those flies that have aluke or membranous scales above the halteres.
From Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology by John. B. Smith
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
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
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
"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
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
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
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