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

The Honduran American designer recently launched vibrant backless U-shaped halter tops adorned with a loose lace trim across the mid-torso.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 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

William tried to drag the beast forward by its halter, but it would not budge.

From "The Inquisitor's Tale" by Adam Gidwitz

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

Capitulum: a small head: the enlarged tip of an antenna: the little knob at tip of halteres in Diptera: the labella or lapping tip of the mouth of certain flies.

From Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology by John. B. Smith

The volumes — evident also in boxy jackets and oversized coats — are balanced by shoulder-baring halters and crop tops.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 22, 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

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

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

"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

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

Rope halters 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 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

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