English example sentences with "gumption"

I had a lot of gumption when I was young, but now it seems to have all petered out.

He had the gumption to take my car without asking.

Thomas says Donnell himself is a sensible, hard-working man, but he hadn't much gumption when he picked out a wife, that's what.

I admire your gumption.

Every evening he told her that anybody with ordinary gumption ought to realize that night air was bad for the human frame.

I like your gumption, kid.