101.   The posters sprang up spontaneously, then spread like a desperate ivy.

102.   The restaurants, clubs, movie theaters and shops are spreading like mesquite.

103.   The rumors have spread like sound waves, emanating from coffee shops and school-board meetings.

104.   The spread has spread like a jungle fungus and infected everybody.

105.   The summer-movie mediocrity spread like a virus.

106.   The trendy group created an energy of its own, spreading like morning glory in a vineyard.

107.   The understated minimalism championed for several years by Jasper Morrison, the soft-spoken English maverick designer, has spread like wildfire.

108.   The United States had no such defenses, and the fire ants spread like wildfire.

109.   The Toronto Blessing has spread like branch fire from church to church, continent to continent.

110.   The word inside the bar spread like wildfire.