The team laid an electric cable along the floor throughout the building, strung with outlets, like a cord for Christmas-tree lights.

Despair triumphed when he stripped off his clothes and strangled himself with the cord of the Christmas-tree lights.

Christmas-tree lights were cited in more than 3,000 injuries last year; non-electric ornaments in about the same.

They didn't seem to twinkle but to blink on and off like Christmas-tree lights.

But they weren't stars, because they were winking and flickering like Christmas-tree lights.

The Christmas-tree lights weren't working and he had to check each bulb in turn.

He stood for a moment, looking at the Christmas-tree lights.

Christmas-tree lights softly illuminating the breathless, saucer-eyed wonder of two little girls on this special day of days.

Old-fashioned Christmas-tree lights are $19.95 a strand.

I could imagine Christmas-tree lights on these places in December.