ploy in English

noun
1
a cunning plan or action designed to turn a situation to one's own advantage.
the president has dismissed the referendum as a ploy to buy time

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Below are sample sentences containing the word "ploy" from the English Dictionary. We can refer to these sentence patterns for sentences in case of finding sample sentences with the word "ploy", or refer to the context using the word "ploy" in the English Dictionary.

1. The ploy didn't work.

2. This isn't a ploy to be recommended.

3. This is also a good ploy for vegetarians.

4. This crude critical ploy is derisory.

5. You know, a hatchet is a clumsy ploy.

6. This ploy should give the stockmarket a boost.

7. But the ploy could backfire by alienating working women.

8. Aneuploidy (AN-yuh-ploy-dee) happens when a …

9. His usual ploy is to pretend he's ill.

10. Why give her the satisfaction of knowing her ploy had succeeded?

11. Running directly at the herd is a ploy to generate panic.

12. It was all a ploy to distract attention from his real aims.

13. I think this is just a government ploy to deceive the public.

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15. He claims it is a deliberate ploy to squeeze out weaker brokers.

16. The ploy was a bait and switch, an act of emotional blackmail.

17. Use every ploy to project my reality in defence of my choices.

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19. A neat marketing ploy, and a good way of interesting children in aviation.

20. The religious element of their election campaign was a cynical ploy.

21. 3 One ploy that Satan uses is to plant doubts in our mind.

22. The lighthearted Banished Words List began as a promotional ploy for little-known LSSU

23. The final suggestion is that Kirov's murder was a ploy by a foreign government.

24. The party's political managers thought it a ruinous ploy in election year.

25. Using government subsidies to increase local authority rents is not a new ploy. Sentencedict.com

26. Christmas should be a time of excitement and wonder, not a cynical marketing ploy.

27. 30 Christmas should be a time of excitement and wonder, not a cynical marketing ploy.

28. He's not really ill, it's just a ploy to make us feel sorry for him.

29. This ploy bought valuable time, and David made good his escape. —1 Samuel 19:11-16.

30. Such informed users are unlikely to fall victim to the huckster's ploy, to the sales pitch.

31. He praises my cooking but it's just a cynical ploy to get me to make his meals.

32. But this year an even more offensive marketing ploy is keeping me away from my Christmas shopping.

33. This is the latest ploy dreamt up by advertising companies to sell their new products.

34. Abuja may be using China’s interest as a ploy to improve its own allocation of oil revenues ...

35. A promo video stressing the artist's style is a shrewd marketing ploy which exploits the music industry's visual obsession.

36. 19 He praises my cooking but it's just a cynical ploy to get me to make his meals.

37. His stark little ploy may succeed in appealing to the sartorially challenged, but the morally ambiguous generation behind him?

38. Certainly Mosley's constant harping on the theme of left-wing intimidation was a fairly effective recruiting ploy throughout the 1930s.

39. The ploy didn't work: although the News of the World did not print the Mahmood story, other papers did.

40. Apple's altruism was also labelled as a smart ploy to introduce the nation's youngsters to its products.

41. Data showing that shoppers buy these items together more often when they are displayed together will confirm that the ploy works.

42. But in the market at that time the ploy was far from enough to make the new models seem like bargains.

43. This defensive ploy is called the “stick pose,” the kookaburra looking like a stick to the overhead bird.

44. This may have been coincidence or, as we noted earlier, a deliberate ploy to enhance his own standing.

45. This kind of collection, though usually available individually, is increasingly and intelligently proving to be a marketing ploy.

46. The characters, setting and plot revolve around the ploy to develop children to become soldiers to kill the Buggers when they attack

47. But there is this political ploy to try to pit police brutality and police misconduct against black-on-black violence.

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49. 22 Certainly Mosley's constant harping on the theme of left-wing intimidation was a fairly effective recruiting ploy throughout the 1930s.

50. Another KGB ploy was to train special agents to pose as “active” Jehovah’s Witnesses who would then try to obtain responsible positions in the organization.