33 examples of gumption in sentences

If ma had the right kind of gumption with you, she'd put a stop to it, all right.

" "If ma had more gumption with you, maybe things would be different.

"Haven't you got the gumption to see why it is this place and these men take such a hold on you?

If you got any natchral gumption anywhere about you, you can have a claim worth anything from ten to fifty thousand dollars this time to-morrow.

Gumption, cf. note (p. 340), Vol.

I have heard of men who wept and retailed their woes; and I have heard of women with gumption.

I don't mean by that that he isn't a tophole man, or a thorough-going friend with guts and gumption, who would chance his neck for anyone he likes without a second's hesitation, for he's every bit of that.

And hasn't even got gumption enough to keep his father's practice together!

And withal, the ordinariness and the midland gumption of the scene were shot through with the bright exotic rays of romance!

He has neither pride nor manners No, nor gumption, overmuch.

"So would you have thought it if you had the least gumption about people.

Whatever they may be on the score of mischief, there can be nae doubt, that, sae far as gumption is concerned, they are just uncommon; and for wit and fun they would beat ony man black and blue.

You never will learn any gumption!

" "Other has the gumption," declared Sharon.

"Other one got the gumption, though," said Sharon.

"Oh, gumption!" said Harvey D., as if this were no rare gift.

" "Other one got the gumption," mumbled Sharon, stubbornly.

" "Got the gumption, though."

"Other has the gumption," said Sharon.

"Other one has the gumption," said Sharon, casting a final rain of cigar ash upon the abused rug at his feet.

" "Always said he had the gumption," declared Sharon Whipple.

"Going to Oxford may be all right for the classics," he growled, "but it's destructive to gumption.

"She's ragged and dirty, but she has a little gumption.

But Mobley was the last man I should have suspected of carrying a dirk, or if he did packing the gumption to use it.

Lindy's got a lot ob gumption; knows most as much as a man.

33 examples of  gumption  in sentences