Sentence examples for wild fire from inspiring English sources

Although it has spread on the internet like wild fire, I do not know its origin.

I had no idea he would catch on like wild fire.

It was the latest casualty in what is turning out to be a wild fire season in California.

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"There's not the horrific movement [in financial markets] that feels like a wild fire out of control in the desert".

The crisis acted as a wild fire, says Michael Malone of the Kellogg School of Management near Chicago.

In this wild fire-sale atmosphere, some companies have been "promising more than they can deliver" to get airline business-fare discounts, Mr. Rosenbluth said.

The 2015 vintage is possibly the earliest harvest on record in California, and wild-fire flames are licking at the edge of Napa Valley".

One songwriter recalled how it "spontaneously" became the Confederacy's anthem, and a British correspondent noted the "wild-fire rapidity" of its "spread over the whole South".

This Kenyan company has created an enormously successful phone-based payment network, which has taken over East Africa like wild-fire.

But with startup events proliferating like wild-fire across the UK, Ireland and Europe, it's important to keep one's feet on the ground.