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41 examples of Wildfire in a sentence

Over the last century, we've become 96 percent less likely to be killed in a car crash, 88 percent less likely to be mowed down on the sidewalk, 99 percent less likely to die in a plane crash, 95 percent less likely to be killed on the job, 89 percent less likely to be killed by an act of God, such as a drought, flood, wildfire, storm, volcano, landslide, earthquake or meteor strike, presumably not because God has become less angry with us but because of improvements in the resilience of our infrastructure.
As a wildfire rages through the grasslands, three lions and three wildebeest flee for their lives.
It spreads like wildfire.
Because of that, social dances bubble up, they change and they spread like wildfire.
When every minute counted, we had already lost months, and by then the virus had spread like wildfire all across West Africa, and eventually to other parts of the world.
And stoicism has spread like wildfire in the top of the NFL ranks as a means of mental toughness training in the last few years.
When it moves, it moves like wildfire.
In 1910, we had a huge wildfire.
Because of the Big Burn, wildfire became public enemy number one, and this would shape the way that we would think about wildfire in our society for the next hundred years.
And the act spread like wildfire.
I once lost everything I owned in the world, every last thing, in a wildfire.
And this stuff rippled like wildfire.
It spread like wildfire and some died within hours of developing symptoms.
This film is breathtaking and the buzz amongst our colleagues in recommending this film is spreading like wildfire.
The President of the United States is shot with the ebola virus by terrorists and the disease will spread like wildfire if time runs out.
Soon, rumors spread like wildfire, and one complication leads to another until the wife wants a divorce!
Scientists predict that exceeding that lower limit will cause low-lying Pacific island states to disappear beneath the rising seas, and will lead to unprecedented drought, wildfire, and flooding.
Such pacts are spreading like wildfire across Asia.
In the globalized world of the twenty-first century, in which crises in one part of the world spread like wildfire to others, selective modernization, based on suppression of the conflicts and tensions that modernization generates, is likely to be even more dangerous.
Nonetheless, the disease spread into urban areas and, like a wildfire, engulfed the three countries and spilled into others.
In California, firefighters are battling the embers of the largest wildfire in state history.
In fact, the latest overview of global wildfire incidence suggests that, because humans have suppressed fire and decreased vegetation density, fire intensity has declined over the past 70 years, and is now close to its preindustrial level.
Moreover, a contagion of social and economic breakdown would spread worldwide via computer networks and “digital wildfire” literally at the speed of light.
At this point, one carelessly lit match – whether in Rome, elsewhere in Europe, or in Washington, DC – could start a global wildfire.
For example, recent work with field experiments and randomized controlled trials (RCTs), which has caught on like wildfire among development economists, lies strictly in the tradition of bottom-up development.
But on this, our Black Monday, the weather conspired with the chronic failures of Greece’s state and society to turn a wildfire into a lethal inferno.
Given these conditions, even a small spark could ignite a wildfire.
With so much tinder around, it is surprising that a wildfire did not start before now.
In Tunisia, whose revolution ignited the wildfire of change that quickly spread across the region, young people account for 70% of total unemployment.
DENVER – Not since 1989 has the world seen such an all-consuming, all-engulfing wildfire of freedom and democracy, whose burning passions are sweeping across a region vast and old and desperately in need of reform.