I am exasperated with my attempts to use gumption in a sentence.
His fruitless attempts to change the oil in his car. This sentence works because the word means to fail at something.
many mountaineers climbed several attempts on mount everest.
The insurgents' abortive attempts to infiltrate our lines were rebuffed by our advance teams.
A seance is a meeting at which a spiritualist attempts to receive communications from the spirits of the dead.
His true colours began to reveal themselves as he laughed at my failed attempts on the hurdles.
It was a feudal society with an autocratic government and few attempts to secure popular consent.
"He doesn't know the meaning of sarcasm...", he said.It is painfully obvious that my attempts at sarcasm are wasted on you.
Here are some sentences.She spurned his attempts at romance.He felt spurned by her comments.
She was so maladroit in her attempts to fix the computer that she ended up making it worse.
Convicts didn't survive their attempts to escape Alcatraz because of the cold water and tricky currents.
Marina attempts to overcome her