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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Ars Video The ploy—called the Sterile Insect Technique—throws a wrench into the unique life cycle of screwworms.
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Beth Mole, ArsTechnica, 2 May 2025
His Canadian ploy was not salutary or deliberate, and the justifications that were marshaled in its defense made no sense either for him or for the United States.
—Charles C. W. Cooke, National Review, 29 Apr. 2025
The sham lawsuit was nothing more than a transparent ploy to obtain subpoena power.
—Dominic Patten, Deadline, 24 Apr. 2025
But critics have questioned whether the efforts are merely ploys for Trump’s attention, including the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute (EPI), which published a damning review of the efforts earlier this month.
—Elizabeth Crisp, The Hill, 23 Apr. 2025
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Beth Mole, ArsTechnica, 2 May 2025
His Canadian ploy was not salutary or deliberate, and the justifications that were marshaled in its defense made no sense either for him or for the United States.
—Charles C. W. Cooke, National Review, 29 Apr. 2025
The sham lawsuit was nothing more than a transparent ploy to obtain subpoena power.
—Dominic Patten, Deadline, 24 Apr. 2025
But critics have questioned whether the efforts are merely ploys for Trump’s attention, including the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute (EPI), which published a damning review of the efforts earlier this month.
—Elizabeth Crisp, The Hill, 23 Apr. 2025
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“Ploy.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ploy. Accessed 20 May. 2025.
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noun
: a trick designed to embarrass or upset an opponent
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