31.   It has been growing like Topsy, making acquisition after acquisition.

32.   It was an hour before game time, and the noise was already growing like a giant mushroom cloud that would eventually fill The Summit.

33.   It looks and grows like a weed.

34.   Meanwhile, Bark has grown like a frisky, hungry puppy.

35.   Mint is an herb that grows like a weed, dominating any garden space into which it is introduced.

36.   Meanwhile, Trees Company, which she runs from home in East Northport and has never advertised, has grown like English ivy.

37.   More recently, literary and up-market niches in commercial houses have been growing like vegetables.

38.   One trick to make it easier to bend a fig to the ground is to grow it like a shrub, keeping only young, supple stems.

39.   Seedlings grow like wildflowers.

40.   She said it grew back like a fuzzy tennis ball.