Example sentences for: gumption

How can you use “gumption” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • He's less credible yet making cow eyes at Minnie Driver, whose tomboyish gumption is often charming but more often strange.

  • Network legal analysts and reporters followed suit, marveling at Wright's "guts" and "gumption," even as their own instant polls showed the public favored the ruling.

  • Lawyers and judges are trying to raise money for the agency that many say has worked magic with little more than gumption, hardscrabble dollars and a rambling, second-floor warren of rooms across the street from City Hall.

  • The traditional investigative story, at least in the movies, works this way: The intrepid reporter, through gumption and legwork, exposes the evildoer; then the government takes over to flesh out the case and administer punishment.


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