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The bump was on full show in the custom Atelier Prabal Gurung crop top, which the designer described as a "sculptural high-low halter top with a cascading train".

From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026

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 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

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

When Mr. Alpo arrived, halter in hand, to take his prize, how shocked he and the Krupps were to see Drusilla perched happily on Silky’s back!

From "The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling" by Maryrose Wood

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 both halteres are removed, the insect loses its sense of equilibrium, goes into a spin, crashes.

From Time Magazine Archive

Eyes bright red; proboscis a little longer than the thorax; antennæ and legs black; wings slightly greyish, veins black; halteres tawny.

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

I turn and, sure enough, there she is, gorgeous in pink sequins and feathered headdress, removing her horses’ halters and letting them drop to the ground.

From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen

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

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

"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

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

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