How to Use tactic in a Sentence

tactic

1 of 2 noun

• We may need to change tactics.
• Hagar is not the first to defend the agency's use of the tactic.
  — Grant Lancaster, Arkansas Online, 30 Sep. 2023
• The greediest thieves go for the whole bike, and their tactics might trick you.
  — Matt Jancer, WIRED, 28 Nov. 2023
• New targets, new tactics Stoke will soon put that idea to the test.
  — Elie Dolgin, Discover Magazine, 26 Apr. 2023
• That team excelled in close games, a sign of good chess pieces and tactics.
  — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Aug. 2023
• The United States has tried the tactic numerous times, to no avail.
  — Robert A. Pape, Foreign Affairs, 6 Dec. 2023
• In this and much else, Russia’s tactics have changed little since the Cold War.
  — Randy Teague, National Review, 3 May 2023
• There are two big problems with the advice of counsel tactic, though.
  — Byjeff John Roberts, Fortune Crypto, 22 Sep. 2023
• At the heart of the strategy used by Mr. Blanche and his colleagues on the Trump legal team is a favorite Trump tactic: stalling.
  — Alan Feuer, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2024
• That will force you to explore a new area and try some new tactics, rather than sitting in the same old box blind day after day.
  — Alex Robinson, Outdoor Life, 9 Nov. 2023
• One tactic is to see where an opponent might direct her trains and place your own cubes to reap the rewards.
  — Matthew Hutson, The New Yorker, 21 Dec. 2023
• But to the bugs, this odd tactic has a more practical benefit.
  — Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Dec. 2023
• Some of those tactics were once used against the Rohingya population in Rakhine State.
  — Weiyi Cai, New York Times, 31 July 2023
• Until then tank killers need a toolbox of tank-popping weapons, and the tactics to use them properly.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 5 Sep. 2023
• Some saw the doctors’ pushback as a tactic to increase their paychecks.
  — Jin Yu Young, New York Times, 29 Feb. 2024
• The tactic was used to turn away Black citizens, who were not allowed to read during slavery.
  — Deborah Barfield Berry, USA TODAY, 8 Sep. 2023
• Exactly the same tactic applies to the Avdiivka area, Volosyn says.
  — Tim Lister, CNN, 6 Apr. 2024
• The same organizing tactic works well for all 10 parts of the book; the reader is not showered with so many disparate ideas as to ask for shelter.
  — Sena Jeter Naslund, The Courier-Journal, 29 Aug. 2023
• But the truth is, these companies are using the same high-profit tactics as razor and blade makers.
  — Geoffrey A. Fowler, Washington Post, 12 July 2023
• First, there are the aggressive demands and the unusual tactics.
  — David Streitfeld, New York Times, 5 Oct. 2023
• Waiting in the crowd: Protesters using the same tactics that forced him to pack up an outdoor event a day earlier.
  — Hannah Knowles, Marianne Levine and Dylan Wells, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Aug. 2023
• Technique The tactics that can be used for targeting walleyes are truly endless.
  — David A. Rose, Field & Stream, 20 Mar. 2024
• Confusing tactics were employed to teach children how to read.
  — Arthur Jones Ii, ABC News, 8 Sep. 2023
• The automakers have said that's necessary because there is no work for those people to do, while the union has described it as a pressure tactic.
  — Marley Jay, NBC News, 23 Oct. 2023
• By the time five alarms were called, the fire was under control with defensive tactics continuing, the agency said.
  — Isabella Volmert, Dallas News, 18 July 2023
• The issue is bigger than those sideshow tactics, however.
  — Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Oct. 2023
• Lastly, the ice cream should have a custardy texture, not too much air whipped in (a common tactic to stretch ice cream and boost profits), and a confident splash of vanilla.
  — Sam Stone, Bon Appétit, 7 July 2023
• Hassan says such tactics may lead to Church members becoming even more committed to the church than before.
  — Ej Dickson, Rolling Stone, 10 Jan. 2024
• The tactics are part of what logistics experts say is a growing problem for retailers as the overall rate of returns surges.
  — Liz Young, WSJ, 10 Jan. 2024
• What are some examples? Kohan: This is a good question, because trash talk can be used for many reasons — and talkers can use all sorts of tactics.
  — Greg Hanlon, Peoplemag, 21 Dec. 2023

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tactic

2 of 2 adjective

• Jockey likes to send em to front early: that would be good tactic.
  — Michael Beychok, NOLA.com, 22 Jan. 2021
• And so Gideon must depend on tactic No. 2: deadly force.
  — Lauren Puckett-Pope, ELLE, 28 Feb. 2023
• This was one tactic Trump allegedly used to inflate the value of his golf courses and resorts.
  — Scott Nover, Quartz, 21 Sep. 2022
• Guillard says there's another tactic many people use to keep their bird fresh: a cooler with ice.
  — Morgan Hines, USA TODAY, 23 Nov. 2022
• These plans didn’t make any sense at the tactic or operational levels of warfare, so they were scuttled.
  — Michael Krepon, Forbes, 4 Mar. 2021
• That’s the tactic 52-year-old San Francisco resident Lucia Chang used to knock out her own dessert cravings.
  — Elizabeth Millard, Time, 18 Jan. 2023
• Will this tactic work in when parties come from different cultures?
  — Anne Quito, Quartz, 28 Dec. 2021
• So too is humor, a tactic Bennani wields even more deftly and consistently in her work.
  — Lori Waxman, chicagotribune.com, 25 Mar. 2022
• If the tactic works then more indicted executives might use it.
  — Spencer Jakab, WSJ, 11 Sep. 2020
• Laughter is a tactic many powerful women -- not just Black women but all of us -- have been conditioned to use to disarm the men who confront us.
  — Roxanne Jones, CNN, 15 June 2021
• Firing at the press while reporting is a tactic Bellingcat's Waters says is standard practice in Venezuela during street protests.
  — Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 2 June 2020
• The tactic involves buying the underlying securities of an index, such as the S&P 500, then selling the stocks that decline.
  — Neal Templin, WSJ, 2 Dec. 2021
• The tactic accounts for around 70% of Robinhood's revenue, raising questions of whether this is sustainable and if the firm will be able to diversify its revenue stream in the future.
  — Jeff John Roberts, Fortune, 20 Nov. 2020
• Another tactic Francona has employed is to randomly sneak up behind Barnett on the team plane and shave a chunk of his hair with electric clippers.
  — Joe Noga, cleveland, 7 Sep. 2022
• Maybe this tactic works for cigarette smoking or chewing tobacco, but this seemed very wrong.
  — Abigail Van Buren, oregonlive, 24 Feb. 2021
• One point of emphasis is not allowing Los Angeles to win loose balls in the middle of the field, which is one tactic Los Angeles has used to create scoring chances.
  — oregonlive, 20 July 2021
• Even a few snakehead guides were there with clients and many anglers were fishing live bull minnows below a bobber, a classic springtime snakehead tactic.
  — Jim Gronaw, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 5 June 2021
• McCarthy's whitewashing of what happened on January 6, then, is a survival tactic for him.
  — Chris Cillizza, CNN, 26 Apr. 2021
• One tactic companies use during a stock market downturn is to initiate a share buyback to invest in itself.
  — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 3 Sep. 2021
• The tactic works because both state and federal laws have created strong protections for religious freedom in the workplace.
  — Karen Kaplan Science and Medicine Editor, Los Angeles Times, 8 Feb. 2022
• One tactic Dettmer relies on heavily is analogies; his go way beyond the martial metaphors that are inevitably and painfully used when describing the immune system.
  — Diana Gitig, Ars Technica, 23 Jan. 2022
• Republicans employed the tactic many times when their party held the majority.
  — Emily Cochrane, New York Times, 3 Mar. 2021
• The defendants were about 100 people who had been ticketed for misdemeanors — a tactic Rainbows liken to harassment.
  — Karin Brulliard, Washington Post, 3 July 2022
• The tactic first gained popularity among demonstrators in Hong Kong against the Chinese government.
  — oregonlive, 1 Aug. 2020
• He also was placed facedown on the ground for more than nine minutes while restrained — a tactic use-of-force experts criticized as dangerous and likely to have restricted his breathing.
  — Kevin McGill, ajc, 27 May 2021
• This film, however, takes that tactic one step further, jabbing not only at legacy sequels but also at the intense fandoms that inspire them.
  — David Sims, The Atlantic, 14 Jan. 2022
• Because of this tactic, innocent people spend decades in prison, otherwise good cases are derailed, and still others go unsolved.
  — Saul Kassin, Time, 16 Dec. 2022
• Anyone can throw money at either tactic—and to be frank, both are recommended for any business’s success—but where PR can push you leagues ahead of your competitors is in the quality of the narrative.
  — Victoria Kennedy, Forbes, 23 Mar. 2023
• Dwiantoro leaped back onto the motorcycle and led the ambulance through an opening — like a running back finding a thread of daylight in a defensive line — only to repeat the tactic moments later.
  — David Pierson, Los Angeles Times, 5 June 2021
• Can the same tactic work in the war? Since the Russian invasion in February, millions of Ukrainians have poured into neighboring countries that are also contending with record rates of inflation caused in part by the war.
  — Liz Alderman, New York Times, 13 Dec. 2022

Last Updated: 3 May 2024