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Examples of ploy in a Sentence
Her story about being sick is only a ploy to get you to give her money.
asking me to take her shopping turned out to be a ploy to get me to the surprise party
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But now, the ploy also seems to be seeking to have an effect inside Venezuela given Maduro’s low standings at the polls.
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Antonio Maria Delgado, Miami Herald, 15 May 2024
Others, though, truffle-hunt for high-paying W-2s, tax loopholes, bold and risky market bets or big entrepreneurial ploys like Wong’s.
—Amy X. Wang, New York Times, 7 May 2024
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Antonio Maria Delgado, Miami Herald, 15 May 2024
Others, though, truffle-hunt for high-paying W-2s, tax loopholes, bold and risky market bets or big entrepreneurial ploys like Wong’s.
—Amy X. Wang, New York Times, 7 May 2024
See all Example Sentences for ploy
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“Ploy.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ploy. Accessed 20 May. 2024.
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ploy
noun
: a trick designed to embarrass or upset an opponent
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