1.   His head had dropped forward and over his chest a great mat of blood had spread like a bib.

2.   Instability would spread like a chain reaction.

3.   It was the sort of story that would spread like wildfire.

4.   Not all of these students would be involved in work-based learning even if the movement spread like wildfire, but many would.

5.   Phenomenal floods covered thousands of square miles of Labrador and spread like a vast sheet across the central and southwestern United States.

6.   The giggling spread like wildfire, and eventually forced the closing of some schools.

7.   The news had spread like wildfire.

8.   The news spread like wildfire .

9.   The news spread like wildfire through the town.