Gump is an English word of 4 letters. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Gump meaning
- Clipping of gumption
- A foolish person.
- A weak or soft person.
Using Gump
- The main meaning on this page is: Clipping of gumption | A foolish person. | A weak or soft person.
- In the example corpus, gump often appears in combinations such as: forrest gump, gump and, gump is.
Context around Gump
- Average sentence length in these examples: 21.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 7 start, 5 middle, 8 end
- Sentence types: 17 statements, 2 questions, 1 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Gump
- In this selection, "gump" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 21.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, forrest, akin, forest, director, worsley and pope stand out and add context to how "gump" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include akin gump strauss hauer and and forest gump director robert. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "gump" sits close to words such as abner, acquit and adamantly, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with gump
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Who Played Elvis In Forrest Gump? (6 words)
Oh, I’ve been to Gump’s! (7 words)
Forrest Gump is the ultimate tour guide through American history. (10 words)
Sarah has been great though; she’s been with you every step of the way as you’ve seen home prices soar and rates jump up to levels not seen since Forrest Gump was on the silver screen. (38 words)
He has now made filmmaking history as the only director to receive four A+ grades on CinemaScore, pipping the likes of A Few Good Men director Rob Reiner and Forest Gump director Robert Zemeckis. (34 words)
Brooks Gump, a public health professor at SU, agreed with Gupta that it’s too early to predict whether SU will be able to bring students back to campus safely in January. (32 words)
I’m not expecting everyone to know about Gump Worsley and Shrimp Worters, but Jerry Rice and Randy Moss? (19 words)
Who Played Elvis In Forrest Gump? (6 words)
Oh, I’ve been to Gump’s! (7 words)
Example sentences (20)
Forrest Gump is the ultimate tour guide through American history.
He has now made filmmaking history as the only director to receive four A+ grades on CinemaScore, pipping the likes of A Few Good Men director Rob Reiner and Forest Gump director Robert Zemeckis.
I’m not expecting everyone to know about Gump Worsley and Shrimp Worters, but Jerry Rice and Randy Moss?
Like Hanks as Gump, Pope let his beard grow wild along the journey.
No coincidence that in almost all his movies, including Saving Private Ryan, Philadelphia, Sully, Forrest Gump and Castaway, he's the good guy.
Nominated for an Oscar six times, he won best actor for “Philadelphia” in 1993 and “Forrest Gump” the following year.
The designs have even been featured in blockbusters including Braveheart, Forrest Gump, Rob Royand Far and Away.
This year we chose to support the Andy Gump Foundation, a non-profit organization, founded by Dave Godmere and Brenda Godmere aimed at helping children living in difficult situations.
Who Played Elvis In Forrest Gump?
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld to lobby on issues related to the merger.
As Forrest Gump likely would have told us, old Alfa Romeos and rust go together like peas and carrots.
Oh, I’ve been to Gump’s!
One is when, this is just personal, but when we went around, Bob and I and Tom, we checked out the theaters the night that Forrest Gump opened.
Sarah has been great though; she’s been with you every step of the way as you’ve seen home prices soar and rates jump up to levels not seen since Forrest Gump was on the silver screen.
The exchange didn’t go unnoticed by those watching from home, with one person using a GIF of Forrest Gump running.
The 'Forrest Gump' co-stars reunite for the boundary-pushing director's latest high-concept experiment, in which appalling de-aging technology distracts from what matters.
Zemeckis has a long history of pouncing on new technologies to help him tell stories, from “Forrest Gump” to “The Polar Express,” and Hanks has often come along for the ride.
Another surprise was meeting the Bubba (of Bubba Gump restaurant fame).
Brooks Gump, a public health professor at SU, agreed with Gupta that it’s too early to predict whether SU will be able to bring students back to campus safely in January.
Clete Willems, a partner at Akin Gump and a former trade official in the Trump administration, said the executive orders were motivated by national security concerns, not by reciprocity.
Common combinations with gump
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- forrest gump 34×
- gump and 5×
- gump is 4×
- gump to 4×
- forest gump 2×
- gump the 2×
- akin gump 2×
- gump was 2×
- gump running 2×
- bubba gump 2×