111.   Then it spread like a true social phenomena.

112.   The white tanks and gray panels spread like rooftop mushrooms across the low skyline, and hardly anyone gives them a second thought.

113.   Their silent Macarena opened the Journal article, which on a slow week in August between political conventions spread like a California brush fire.

114.   There are horrible outbreaks of insanity all across this country, especially in basketball and baseball, and in some areas the dreaded disease is spreading like wildfire.

115.   They are a success story in a country where minor leagues are spreading like wildfire.

116.   This absolutive participial construction now spreading like wildfire through our discourse was brought to my attention by the Floridians Sylvia and Morton Holstein.

117.   Those seeds of doubt spread like kudzu across Wall Street.

118.   Unlike anthrax, it is highly contagious, able to spread like fire through a dry forest.

119.   Uneasiness spread like a contagion among the rest.

120.   Unlike anthrax, smallpox is a highly communicable disease, which means that it could spread like wildfire through the population.