spread like wildfire
Example Sentences
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Hundreds of people showed up, and videos of people of all ages turning up in the popular supermarket spread like wildfire.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 23, 2025
In the 2000s, the song spread like wildfire on file-sharing sites like Napster and Kazaa but, until now, The Stones had refused to clear it for commercial release.
From BBC • Dec. 10, 2025
It spread like wildfire on TikTok and Instagram, spawning its own hand gestures, and became so ubiquitous -- and annoying -- that it was reportedly banned in some US schools.
From Barron's • Nov. 26, 2025
Yet still the conspiracy theories continued to spread like wildfire.
From Slate • Sep. 13, 2024
“The deed was done and word of what Prentisstown had done spread like wildfire, starting with the few who’d managed to escape. All men from Prentisstown were declared criminals. We couldn’t leave.”
From "The Knife of Never Letting Go" by Patrick Ness
