1.   There was blood everywhere and fragments of bone, scattered about like chips of chalk in the puddles.

2.   The wheels soon graunched against a broken stone wall, and a worry of goats scattered like demons in the dark.

3.   An entire forest was despoiled, the trees toppled and scattered like tiny Lincoln Logs.

4.   At night, many of the youths had taken to sleeping along the wall, cocooned in blankets, bodies scattered like bowling pins.

5.   After a few minutes, they scattered like bugs exposed to light.

6.   But at that point, the field scattered like a covey of quail.

7.   Foolish pride, we are told, will be scattered like dust.

8.   Flat mud houses scattered like tiny forts across the landscape suggest that there is little companionship among the people who toil here.

9.   He clogs the dozen or so tape recorders scattered like cockroaches in front of him, and he tests the finger-weary stenographer stationed at his side.

10.   I know people whose children have scattered like thistledown to the farthest corners of this country and even of the planet.