11.   The slander spread like wildfire and was only checked when the drunk who invented it confessed in a magistrates court.

12.   When low performance leads to an organizational crisis, rumors of executive malfeasance spread like wildfire among rank-and-file members.

13.   Word of it spread like wildfire among geophysicists.

14.   These stories are spreading like wildfire through the city.

15.   Juliet felt a strange sort of throbbing inside her, that quickly spread like tentacles of fever through her body.

16.   With the spectre of a ruinous trade war looming which could spread like wildfire round the world.

17.   Already, Quake has spread like dandelion seeds in the wind.

18.   Although styles vary, the lounge concept is spreading like a rumor.

19.   Among high school and college students, their message has spread like wildfire.