Definition of surefire
: certain to get successful or expected results
- a surefire recipe
- Trending Now: More Trending:
- asylum insubordinate promulgate epochal clemency
- ALL
What's Trending Now
More Trending Words
Examples of surefire in a Sentence
The movie is a surefire hit with teenagers.
There is no surefire way to predict the outcome.
Recent Examples of surefire from the Web
-
Coming of age in the 90s and early 2000s, before social media existed, a surefire way for a young woman with no celebrity connections to make it on TV and get her voice heard was by having a title like Miss Virginia or Miss New York.
-
Weight loss through a wholesome diet and exercise — activities like walking and strength-training — is the only surefire way to get rid of it.
-
With that resolution passed, carriers no longer have to ask for explicit permission before viewing, sharing, or using that data — a surefire move to bring in those precious ad dollars.
-
Rarely does such a surefire banger -- with strut-worthy lines about feeling like a supermodel on the dancefloor -- pack such emotional nuance too.
-
There aren’t a ton of surefire MVP candidates in the NL and Gennett could probably make a case for a spot in the bottom of the Top 10.
-
Green says a surefire way to find the best watermelon for your summer BBQ is to look for one with a large deep gold, yellow, or straw-colored spot on the outside.
-
This is somewhat unlikely from a marketing perspective, however, as China is a major movie market and making Beijing the antagonist is a surefire way to prevent Top Gun 2 from hitting Chinese theaters.
-
But the three men in Lebanon, Maine, who stole the shed Sunday found a surefire way to get caught, according to Maine State Police.
These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'surefire.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
First Known Use of surefire
1846
surefire Synonyms
SUREFIRE Defined for English Language Learners
Definition of surefire for English Language Learners
-
: certain not to fail : sure to be successful
Learn More about surefire
Seen and Heard
What made you want to look up surefire? Please tell us where you read or heard it (including the quote, if possible).
