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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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The complaints against Liccardo, filed with absolutely no evidence, are a crass political ploy to mislead voters.
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Ann Ravel, The Mercury News, 13 July 2024
After the ploy came to light several years later, terrorists murdered legitimate polio vaccine workers, and there was a resurgence of polio in the population.
—Keith Kloor, Scientific American, 27 June 2024
The Biden team’s ploy to marginalize Kennedy demonstrates their desperation to avoid responding to the key elements of his platform.
—David Marks, Orlando Sentinel, 25 June 2024
The ploy, of course, falls apart — David can only pretend to be a real Jew for so long before his true identity as just another Jew-ish guy in L.A. is revealed.
—P.e. Moskowitz, Vulture, 5 Apr. 2024
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Ann Ravel, The Mercury News, 13 July 2024
After the ploy came to light several years later, terrorists murdered legitimate polio vaccine workers, and there was a resurgence of polio in the population.
—Keith Kloor, Scientific American, 27 June 2024
The Biden team’s ploy to marginalize Kennedy demonstrates their desperation to avoid responding to the key elements of his platform.
—David Marks, Orlando Sentinel, 25 June 2024
The ploy, of course, falls apart — David can only pretend to be a real Jew for so long before his true identity as just another Jew-ish guy in L.A. is revealed.
—P.e. Moskowitz, Vulture, 5 Apr. 2024
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“Ploy.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ploy. Accessed 26 Jul. 2024.
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ploy
noun
: a trick designed to embarrass or upset an opponent
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