spread like wildfire's Usage Examples:

a group of eighty under the leadership of Pulin Behari Das, it "spread like wildfire" throughout the province of East Bengal.

News regarding the mysterious idol began to spread like wildfire within the village.

Soon, the fame of this special sweet spread like wildfire and within a short span of 6/7 years, Rossogolla won the hearts of.

Unrest spread like wildfire throughout the country.

While rumors spread like wildfire about Owen's connection to Nathan, real wildfires send a multitude.

The news spread like wildfire to the villagers.

on April 21 and carried out the Sree Angan massacre, news of this spread like wildfire all across Faridpur, shocking the Hindus there.

"Bad ideas spread like wildfire, so why didn't a good one catch on?".

The interest in the code spread like wildfire, and within a few months and a few revisions there had been over.

This spread like wildfire on Internet message boards and eventually it was played on a Sky.

News of the upcoming duel between the two greatest swordsmen spread like wildfire and attract much attention, with people starting to place bets on.

The news spread like wildfire, a sharp blow to Mexican soccer: "Superman" had died.

flight had been released by our state news agency, TASS, rumors spread like wildfire that a crewed space flight had gone wrong and been covered up.

The news spread like wildfire and created an uproar among the people in far off places like Chirala.

technologies meant that photography was opened to a wider audience, and "spread like wildfire over the country.

"False report of Joe Paterno's death: Here's how it spread like wildfire".

After the game in Independence, night baseball "spread like wildfire" across the minor leagues.

Synonyms:

redistribute; sprawl; export; distribute; strew; diffuse; straw; discharge; deploy; generalize; metastasize; metastasise; propagate; fan out; spread out; straggle; generalise;

Antonyms:

gather; advance; fall; follow; enter;