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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Ripping from the headlines is a money-making ploy as old as Hollywood itself.
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Kelly Lawler, USA Today, 13 Oct. 2025
That was Alba’s first assist for Messi in just their second start together, and the birth of a two-man ploy that would leave opposition coaches scratching their heads for more than a decade.
—Anantaajith Raghuraman, New York Times, 9 Oct. 2025
Scammers are improving their ploys to be even more convincing.
—Summer Stephan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Oct. 2025
For critics, however, the games were the latest ploy to undermine the moral values of America’s youths.
—Time, 8 Oct. 2025
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Kelly Lawler, USA Today, 13 Oct. 2025
That was Alba’s first assist for Messi in just their second start together, and the birth of a two-man ploy that would leave opposition coaches scratching their heads for more than a decade.
—Anantaajith Raghuraman, New York Times, 9 Oct. 2025
Scammers are improving their ploys to be even more convincing.
—Summer Stephan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Oct. 2025
For critics, however, the games were the latest ploy to undermine the moral values of America’s youths.
—Time, 8 Oct. 2025
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 17 Oct. 2025.
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ploy
noun
: a trick designed to embarrass or upset an opponent
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