How to Use ploy in a Sentence

ploy

noun

• Her story about being sick is only a ploy to get you to give her money.
• Football's one big ploy to sell food.
  — Marina Watts, PEOPLE, 26 Jan. 2026
• His lawyers counter the suit was a ploy to avoid being cut out of his will.
  — Kate Stanhope, latimes.com, 22 May 2018
• Killing her off like this felt cheap, a ploy for some drama and a fight scene.
  — Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 9 Oct. 2017
• No tactical ploys or tweaks could save him.
  — Jordan Campbell, New York Times, 25 May 2026
• The ploy enabled her to avoid prison for an extra six months.
  — Kristina Davis, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 July 2022
• Would be cool to see trump call them out on their obvious ploy.
  — Gord Magill, Newsweek, 22 Dec. 2024
• The ploy didn’t work, and Arizona turned the ball over on downs.
  — Michael Lev, The Arizona Republic, 24 Nov. 2021
• Cats are far less trusting than dogs and rarely fall for the pill-in-the-treat ploy.
  — Joan Morris, Mercury News, 15 Sep. 2025
• The ploy would buy them an extra year of parental leave from Co-op shifts.
  — Jill Lepore, The New Yorker, 8 Dec. 2019
• Powell said the probe is a ploy to pressure him to lower rates.
  — Natasha Abellard, CNBC, 16 Jan. 2026
• Four of the men pleaded guilty to charges connected to the ploy.
  — Mary Kilpatrick, cleveland, 31 Dec. 2019
• Is this all an elaborate pump-and-dump type of ploy (not likely)?
  — Jacob Carpenter, Fortune, 14 Apr. 2022
• Johnson’s ploy demonstrates that the mission is still alive and well.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 3 Nov. 2023
• Of course someone who works as a bridesmaid for hire would go for a fake-dating ploy!
  — Katherine Polcari, Southern Living, 19 June 2026
• The game is now so pervasive that the ploy is easier to spot.
  — Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 23 Dec. 2023
• The use of genre is just a ploy to talk about human beings and society.
  — Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 6 Sep. 2023
• The rather obvious ploy involves using a foul word in a prompt.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 5 Feb. 2023
• Wasn’t that always just a ploy by Logan to pull her away from Gil?
  — Kevin Sullivan, Robb Report, 17 Oct. 2021
• Their ploy was copied and the ‘third back game’, as it was then known, became the standard system.
  — Michael Cox, New York Times, 12 June 2025
• Or were their outrageous takes simply a ploy to boost ratings?
  — Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times, 20 May 2026
• The focus was on people, the machinations and ploys of city dwellers.
  — Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 7 May 2018
• Otho takes the lead in holding seances to bring the dead back to life as an entertainment ploy.
  — Lisa Stardust, Peoplemag, 6 Sep. 2024
• Tuesday’s free lunch campaign was a ploy by Grubhub to get users back on the app.
  — Ali Francis, Bon Appétit, 19 May 2022
• Ukraine had not agreed to a truce, viewing it as a ploy for Russian forces to regroup.
  — Paulina Villegas, Washington Post, 8 Jan. 2023
• One was that the op ed was published on the very same day her book went on sale, a clear ploy to generate more sales.
  — cleveland, 16 Oct. 2021
• And this isn't just some ploy to get people to click some links and buy stuff, Harris assures.
  — Hannah Chubb, PEOPLE.com, 1 Oct. 2021
• Always ready, when all else fails, to play the old hits such as the familiar blame-the-media ploy.
  — Clarence Page, Chicago Tribune, 27 July 2025
• This might be a clever ploy by AI makers or evildoers.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 21 June 2026
• The ploys of these desperate grandparents is where the actors do their best work.
  — David John Chávez, Mercury News, 3 Dec. 2025