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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His inclusion could come across as a cynical ploy, a way of measuring social progress in a backward town.
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Grace Byron, New Yorker, 22 Oct. 2025
Santa Cruz County Sheriff David Hathaway, a Democrat, believes the financial incentives are a federal ploy to pull local officers away from their everyday duties and direct them to immigration enforcement.
—Rafael Carranza, ProPublica, 21 Oct. 2025
Ripping from the headlines is a money-making ploy as old as Hollywood itself.
—Kelly Lawler, USA Today, 13 Oct. 2025
Is this anything more than a political ploy?
—NBC news, 12 Oct. 2025
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Grace Byron, New Yorker, 22 Oct. 2025
Santa Cruz County Sheriff David Hathaway, a Democrat, believes the financial incentives are a federal ploy to pull local officers away from their everyday duties and direct them to immigration enforcement.
—Rafael Carranza, ProPublica, 21 Oct. 2025
Ripping from the headlines is a money-making ploy as old as Hollywood itself.
—Kelly Lawler, USA Today, 13 Oct. 2025
Is this anything more than a political ploy?
—NBC news, 12 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 24 Oct. 2025.
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ploy
noun
: a trick designed to embarrass or upset an opponent
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