How to Use tactic in a Sentence

tactic

1 of 2 noun

• We may need to change tactics.
• But this is no book on tactics.
  — Leander Schaerlaeckens june 8, Literary Hub, 8 June 2026
• This is not a good-faith tactic.
  — Jennifer Van Grove, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Feb. 2026
• So far, her tactics have worked.
  — Kate Linthicum, Los Angeles Times, 30 Jan. 2026
• What’s even worse is that his tactic worked.
  — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 19 Sep. 2025
• Not through tactics or squads—but through a song.
  — Desjah Altvater, Forbes.com, 11 June 2026
• Use these pros and cons to choose the best tactic for your grass.
  — Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 1 Apr. 2026
• Dropping mines with drones is not a new tactic.
  — David Kirichenko, Forbes.com, 30 May 2026
• But the tactic starts to fall apart around middle school.
  — Lisa Jarvis, Twin Cities, 4 Mar. 2026
• All the tactics will fall apart without that.
  — Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 5 June 2026
• Their tactics had long ceased to surprise me.
  — Snigdha Poonam, The Dial, 28 Oct. 2025
• That team excelled in close games, a sign of good chess pieces and tactics.
  — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Aug. 2023
• The tactic was time as pressure.
  — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 14 Oct. 2025
• This tactic is known as scareware.
  — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 14 Feb. 2026
• That’s the problem with this tactic.
  — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 29 Aug. 2025
• The blue state lawsuit is test of whether the courts will weigh in to halt this tactic.
  — Ella Nilsen, CNN Money, 2 June 2026
• This was not a new tactic in the tech industry.
  — Chris Degnan, Fortune, 29 Sep. 2025
• Those tactics have only scaled.
  — Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 31 May 2026
• There had not been a team meeting to go over tactics either.
  — Nick Miller, New York Times, 13 Mar. 2026
• Kharg Island might be the tactic here.
  — ABC News, 22 Mar. 2026
• There are tactics managers can use to skirt leading with fear.
  — Gili Malinsky, CNBC, 17 Sep. 2025
• New targets, new tactics Stoke will soon put that idea to the test.
  — Elie Dolgin, Discover Magazine, 26 Apr. 2023
• One of the tactics that strikes me is boundary-holding.
  — R. Eric Thomas, Denver Post, 25 Feb. 2026
• Parents are trying this new tactic to stop their kids' tantrums.
  — Sam Woodward, USA Today, 9 Apr. 2026
• The tactics haven't deterred her.
  — Sophie Carson, jsonline.com, 26 Feb. 2026
• Xi has used this tactic with other leaders, too.
  — Xianda Huang, The Conversation, 16 May 2026
• The greediest thieves go for the whole bike, and their tactics might trick you.
  — Matt Jancer, WIRED, 28 Nov. 2023
• Now, many of those same tactics are being deployed again.
  — Stepheny Price, FOXNews.com, 21 Apr. 2026
• This has been an effective tactic so far.
  — Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 13 Feb. 2026
• Why weren’t these unsavory tactics nipped in the bud?
  — Bea L. Hines, Miami Herald, 13 Feb. 2026

tactic

2 of 2 adjective

• Every once in a while, this tactic results in a bluegill or two that are bigger than my hand.
  — Joe Cermele, Outdoor Life, 9 July 2026
• Will this tactic work in when parties come from different cultures?
  — Anne Quito, Quartz, 28 Dec. 2021
• One fan pointed out a tactic others will likely follow next season.
  — Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 5 May 2026
• If the tactic works then more indicted executives might use it.
  — Spencer Jakab, WSJ, 11 Sep. 2020
• Don’t bribe—empathize Bribing picky eaters with dessert is a common tactic parents use to get to the end of the meal.
  — Taylor Grothe, Parents, 17 Oct. 2025
• These plans didn’t make any sense at the tactic or operational levels of warfare, so they were scuttled.
  — Michael Krepon, Forbes, 4 Mar. 2021
• Maybe this tactic works for cigarette smoking or chewing tobacco, but this seemed very wrong.
  — Abigail Van Buren, oregonlive, 24 Feb. 2021
• This was one tactic Trump allegedly used to inflate the value of his golf courses and resorts.
  — Scott Nover, Quartz, 21 Sep. 2022
• So too is humor, a tactic Bennani wields even more deftly and consistently in her work.
  — Lori Waxman, chicagotribune.com, 25 Mar. 2022
• For any hiker who becomes stranded overnight, Keller advised keeping this simple, life-saving tactic top of mind.
  — Owen Clarke, Outside, 16 Mar. 2026
• Mirroring can also be a survival tactic for awkward networking events.
  — Anne Quito, Quartz, 28 Dec. 2021
• Even a few snakehead guides were there with clients and many anglers were fishing live bull minnows below a bobber, a classic springtime snakehead tactic.
  — Jim Gronaw, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 5 June 2021
• One tactic companies use during a stock market downturn is to initiate a share buyback to invest in itself.
  — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 3 Sep. 2021
• Republicans employed the tactic many times when their party held the majority.
  — Emily Cochrane, New York Times, 3 Mar. 2021
• Because of this tactic, innocent people spend decades in prison, otherwise good cases are derailed, and still others go unsolved.
  — Saul Kassin, Time, 16 Dec. 2022
• Laughter is a tactic many powerful women -- not just Black women but all of us -- have been conditioned to use to disarm the men who confront us.
  — Roxanne Jones, CNN, 15 June 2021
• This film, however, takes that tactic one step further, jabbing not only at legacy sequels but also at the intense fandoms that inspire them.
  — David Sims, The Atlantic, 14 Jan. 2022
• The tactic works because both state and federal laws have created strong protections for religious freedom in the workplace.
  — Karen Kaplan Science and Medicine Editor, Los Angeles Times, 8 Feb. 2022
• Cherry-picking is another tactic vaccine skeptics often use.
  — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 2 May 2026
• That might be because teams are using the breaks to deliver instructions, with several managers pulling out tactic boards to help coach their players midway through each half.
  — Ben Church, CNN Money, 18 June 2026
• McCarthy's whitewashing of what happened on January 6, then, is a survival tactic for him.
  — Chris Cillizza, CNN, 26 Apr. 2021
• Another tactic Francona has employed is to randomly sneak up behind Barnett on the team plane and shave a chunk of his hair with electric clippers.
  — Joe Noga, cleveland, 7 Sep. 2022
• Instead of honing in on gaming as a core business model, it's simply being used as a tactic and content category in the broader marketing mix.
  — Derrick Morton, Forbes, 8 Nov. 2021
• Firing at the press while reporting is a tactic Bellingcat's Waters says is standard practice in Venezuela during street protests.
  — Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 2 June 2020
• He also was placed facedown on the ground for more than nine minutes while restrained — a tactic use-of-force experts criticized as dangerous and likely to have restricted his breathing.
  — Kevin McGill, ajc, 27 May 2021
• One tactic Dettmer relies on heavily is analogies; his go way beyond the martial metaphors that are inevitably and painfully used when describing the immune system.
  — Diana Gitig, Ars Technica, 23 Jan. 2022
• That’s the tactic 52-year-old San Francisco resident Lucia Chang used to knock out her own dessert cravings.
  — Elizabeth Millard, Time, 18 Jan. 2023
• Exclusive content only for paying fans is a tactic other companies like Instagram have tried in an effort to entice creators to use the platform.
  — Mia Sato, The Verge, 13 Feb. 2023
• Birtherism is a tactic Republicans have increasingly used to try and devalue or discredit people of colour running for office.
  — refinery29.com, 14 Aug. 2020
• Abusers using this tactic target children, typically minors around the ages of 6 and older, into a person's teens, Hoppmeyer says.
  — Erin Corbett, refinery29.com, 14 Sep. 2021