Tripp pushed a board to the side, and reached in the small box it concealed, pulling on a short cord.

Each of them wore his knife on a short cord around his bare neck.

But it was only the short cord of the saw itself that he had.

The shorter spinal cord is thought to allow it the flexibility to wrap into a ball.

As the short cord wrenched from its socket, the room blacked out.

The 300W, which is about the size and shape of a small computer mouse, plugs into a players headphone jack with a short cord.

She came, snatching the short cord on the ceiling light, her arms full of sheets.

She reached into the sleeve of her tunic and brought out several short cords.

Without speaking, she took three short cords from her sleeve and began knotting them.

Insurance investigators later determined that the fire was caused by an electrical short in a power cord.