11.   Lucille Waldman was busy navigating the holiday crowds on Madison Avenue in the vicinity of F.A.O. Schwarz.

12.   Never mind those holiday shopping crowds.

13.   The more compact season and high levels of consumer confidence are giving store owners reason to expect huge holiday crowds over the next four weekends.

14.   There are other changes in the holiday crowd.

15.   This was a match about power and pecking order, an All-American affair played out before a wave-minded holiday crowd beneath a cerulean holiday sky.

16.   Try them on a holiday crowd, or sip them with a friend.

17.   We dined well, in part because bad weather had kept away expected holiday crowds and, the waiter confided, had left a surplus of seafood.

18.   When the drink was brought to Colonial America, it enjoyed considerable popularity with the youthful holiday crowds as a social drink.

19.   With holiday crowds mobbing Times Square and Rockefeller Center, it sometimes feels as if the rest of the city has moved on in its quest for closure.

20.   Chinese film censors set the date to send holiday crowds to releases by struggling domestic studios.