Sentence examples for got the gumption from inspiring English sources

And our political representatives haven't got the gumption to tackle the issue.

She's even got the gumption to turn the costume department's ideas down and comes up with sketches of her own.

Perhaps Grey stands for the super-rich and the corporations and the bankers who are having their way with us and we are Anastasia pretending to enjoy it because – really – we haven't got the gumption to complain.

Yet the reaction to this issue in some quarters is still tangled in class and race: no more welfare to black and brown people who've made poor choices and haven't got the gumption to work their way out of them.

"She's got the gumption to come all around the country and ask us for help after she's took all the money off us," he said, referring to benefit cuts.

The trick is divining which brands have got the gumption to last.

"I think he said if he ever gets the gumption to go hit, then he'll need them," Holman said.

When Marion finally gets the gumption and wherewithal to leave Sebastian, he follows and sweet-talks himself into her new flat.

Where on earth did Breedlove get the gumption to turn down an offer of more than four times revenue for her company?

So, with all the hype the new screen version of Les Mis has received, I've found myself getting the gumption to go.

I was mad at my kids if they had been disrespectful of a neighbor, but madder still that when they finally get the gumption to leave their screens, they are often scolded.