81.   Since then, mayhem has spread like floodwaters through Arab communities.

82.   Since many people exchange Word files via e-mail, macro viruses have spread like wildfire.

83.   Small flames were starting to spread like torches and the wind fanned them into fireballs.

84.   Some experts hypothesize that violence spreads like an insidious virus from generation to generation.

85.   State piracy is going to spread like wildfire.

86.   Some can spread like fire through a dry forest.

87.   Talk shows, spreading like the Blob in the old science fiction movie, have already taken over the landscape of broadcast television, radio and cable.

88.   The buzz on this one spread like wildfire among elite colleges.

89.   The branches spread like candelabra, holding up huge crimson fruit clusters that keep glowing long after leafdrop, when all the world is gray.

90.   The disease seemed to spread like fire through a crowd, and people avoided summertime gathering places such as swimming pools, fairs and movie theaters.