1.   Rachel paused by her desk and began toying with the telephone cord.

2.   Behind the stacks of equipment are miles of bundled, intertwined wires and telephone cords running along the walls, under the desks and on the floor.

3.   A year ago, it looked as if the cable television industry was about to be strangled by telephone cords.

4.   After restraining DeMent with the telephone cord, the intruder forced the women to lead him to the valuables.

5.   Falling prices, new hand-held devices and plain old frustration with phone companies and Internet service providers are persuading people to cut the telephone cord.

6.   Greenpeace said it had also found high levels of lead in telephone cords.

7.   He passed through campus, closing open doors, untangling telephone cords, and cleaning the leaves off of the Georgia Tech sign on North Avenue.

8.   He wrapped a telephone cord around his neck and then raised his hospital bed in an apparent attempt to hang himself.

9.   He was also carrying a flashlight, four feet of telephone cord, a four-inch lock-blade knife and white surgical gloves.

10.   Its pink tail was thick as a telephone cord.