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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After the first Roundtable, Survivor stalwart Rob Cesternino — perhaps clued in by Candiace’s absurd conga line ploy to get people out of the kitchen — sniffed out that a murder in plain sight could be happening.
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Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 9 Jan. 2026
Arsenal, keeping Bukayo Saka high, use a similar ploy, and Slot’s men also pressed similarly in their title-winning season.
—Liam Tharme, New York Times, 12 Dec. 2025
The Dodgers' interest in Skubal could be a ploy to generate better offers for the Tigers.
—Aaliyan Mohammed, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 Dec. 2025
The ploys of these desperate grandparents is where the actors do their best work.
—David John Chávez, Mercury News, 3 Dec. 2025
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Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 9 Jan. 2026
Arsenal, keeping Bukayo Saka high, use a similar ploy, and Slot’s men also pressed similarly in their title-winning season.
—Liam Tharme, New York Times, 12 Dec. 2025
The Dodgers' interest in Skubal could be a ploy to generate better offers for the Tigers.
—Aaliyan Mohammed, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 Dec. 2025
The ploys of these desperate grandparents is where the actors do their best work.
—David John Chávez, Mercury News, 3 Dec. 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 14 Jan. 2026.
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noun
: a trick designed to embarrass or upset an opponent
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