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How to use halter in a sentence

14 example sentences · noun, verb

Halter means a bitless headpiece of rope or straps, placed on the head of animals such as cattle or horses to lead or tie them. Example: “What do you mean, you didn't halter the horses when we stopped for the night?”

Examples of halter by meaning

verbTo place a halter on.

  • What do you mean, you didn't halter the horses when we stopped for the night?
  • The two Indians were finished with their own saddling, the camp gear was packed, and already the extra saddle horses and their one packhorse' were haltered so they could be led back to the ranch.1981, James Powell, chapter 8, in The Malpais Rider (A Double D Western), Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, →ISBN, page 62

More sentences with halter

  • The stud colt had taken to halter and bit easily enough, but he was a coldback.2009, David Karcher, Winter Kill, page 17. From the entry cold-back
  • At such an age nothing but a halter could cure the pangs of an unquenchable passion.1911, Joseph Conrad, Under Western Eyes. From the entry aspersion
  • Diesel and Miaou are two brands that feel particularly bratty to me, and I'm dreaming about this strawberry latex halter specifically.2024 July 25, Meg Donohue, Dale Chong, “Same Same But Different: We're Feeling Bratty This Summer”, in Elle, archived from the original on…. From the entry bratty
  • One Malay seaman had resisted the rattan halter––he had been krissed to death on the spot and thrown overboard.2017, John D. Greenwood, Forbidden Hill, Monsoon Books, →ISBN. From the entry kris
  • “Besides,” Linda piped in, “your little pokies will be fine in a halter.” They all laughed and Terri relaxed a little.2009, K. C. Marshall, My Sister's Veil, page 97. From the entry pokies
  • “Did you see my new tattoo?” Pulling her halter aside, the flirt revealed her new tat, Grand scrawled across her breast.2003, J Sebastian, The Bridge is Over, page 26. From the entry silicones
  • A guy washing his car dropped the hose when he saw her in her lowcut jeans and halter top.2003, Reggie Chesterfield, Black Bra and Pantie. From the entry lowcut
  • Susan's impatient monosyllable startled Jori, slung in the halter on her chest, but he promptly went back to sleep after blowing a couple of bubbles.2005, Tango Wayne, Scandinal. From the entry runish
  • Gripping the halter just under his camel's jaw to avoid being bitten Colin was nearly swung off his feet as blood ran from its flank.2004, James Macdonald, “Tribals”, in Visions of Snows: A Tale of Highlanders and War, Hertford, Hertfordshire: Authors OnLine, →ISBN, page…. From the entry oont
  • Slipping the rope from the jenny, he handed her off to his fellow in blackguardly deals, and with remarkable inconspicuity put on the halter and dug in his heels.2017, Jan D. Hodge, The Bard & Scheherazade Keep Company, San Jose, Calif.: Able Muse Press, →ISBN, page 55. From the entry blackguardly
  • Just as our meal was ready, our roustabout came into camp, riding one of the horses barebacked, with only a halter and leading the other two.1912, J. A. Graves, Out of Doors--California and Oregon. From the entry barebacked
  • FORKE² describes two figures of Europeans noticed by him on a Pʽai-lou near Pʽing-yao hsien, Shansi Province; each man is leading a lion by a halter.1910, Berthold Laufer, “Christian Art in China”, in Sonderabdruck au den Mitteilungen des Seminars für Orientalische Sprachen zu Berlin…. From the entry P'ing-yao

Meaning of halter

  1. noun A bitless headpiece of rope or straps, placed on the head of animals such as cattle or horses to lead or tie them.
  2. noun A rope with a noose, for hanging criminals; the gallows rope.
  3. noun A halter top.

Full definition of halter

Questions about halter in a sentence

How do you use halter in a sentence?
Halter is used as a noun and verb. For example: “What do you mean, you didn't halter the horses when we stopped for the night?”
What is a short sentence with halter?
“What do you mean, you didn't halter the horses when we stopped for the night?”
What does halter mean?
Halter means a bitless headpiece of rope or straps, placed on the head of animals such as cattle or horses to lead or tie them.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: halter (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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