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.
• The ploy enabled her to avoid prison for an extra six months.
  — Kristina Davis, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 July 2022
• The game is now so pervasive that the ploy is easier to spot.
  — Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 23 Dec. 2023
• Johnson’s ploy demonstrates that the mission is still alive and well.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 3 Nov. 2023
• Ukraine had not agreed to a truce, viewing it as a ploy for Russian forces to regroup.
  — Paulina Villegas, Washington Post, 8 Jan. 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
• This is risky ploy, and Apple needs to get the value proposition right.
  — Gordon Kelly, Forbes, 10 Jan. 2023
• Ukrainian and Western officials have scorned the truce as a ploy.
  — Arkansas Online, 7 Jan. 2023
• The ploy seemed to work, with fans praising the company on social media.
  — Emily Heil, Washington Post, 18 July 2023
• The Democrats' ploy worked out in their favor -- Bailey bested Irvin in the primary.
  — Brittany Shepherd, ABC News, 29 June 2022
• There is also a fiendishness that can lurk within the hot potato ploy too.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 1 Aug. 2022
• No spoilers, by the way, on whether that ploy actually worked or not.
  — Andy Meek, BGR, 2 Dec. 2022
• Ukraine dismissed the call to put down weapons as a ploy and refused to participate.
  — Ian Lovett, WSJ, 8 Jan. 2023
• This may have been a ploy to keep us ordering Stage Two Nuggets until our hair turned gray.
  — Anne Fadiman, Harper’s Magazine , 10 Feb. 2023
• At the time, Porter denounced the effort as a political ploy.
  — Seema Mehta, Los Angeles Times, 17 Feb. 2024
• With every touchdown, a heart leaps with joy,As fans cheer you on, a never-ending ploy.
  — Hana Khalyleh, The Enquirer, 14 Feb. 2023
• Social media users are claiming this blackout was a ploy by Democrats to steal the midterm election.
  — Hannah Hudnall, USA TODAY, 22 Nov. 2022
• The historic bid, however, was dubbed a ploy by one of the Democrats most outspoken members.
  — Phillip M. Bailey, USA TODAY, 5 Jan. 2023
• And there are ways to do that without any political ploy.
  — ABC News, 18 Sep. 2022
• The shock of seeing Killmonger isn’t just a ploy to get audiences to gasp, the surprise also acts as a test to Shuri.
  — Kathleen Newman-Bremang, refinery29.com, 28 Nov. 2022
• On the tail is the name Geran-2—written in Russian Cyrillic characters as a ploy to disguise the drone’s true origin.
  — David Hambling, Popular Mechanics, 21 Apr. 2023
• As part of her research, Nofziger exchanged texts with a cat scammer in February to see their ploy.
  — Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 1 Dec. 2022
• My father’s thinking was simple: A girl with a doll wasn’t an obvious ploy and was not a threat.
  — Airea D. Matthews, Harper's BAZAAR, 20 July 2023
• The union, meanwhile, framed the layoffs as a ploy by the automakers to put pressure on union membership amid the contract fight.
  — Zachary Halaschak, Washington Examiner, 18 Sep. 2023
• This isn’t just some retro marketing ploy: Vinyl is having a moment.
  — Scott Nover, Quartz, 22 Oct. 2022
• That ploy was part of a larger effort to get his caucus in line at a critical juncture.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 18 Sep. 2023
• The ploy worked long enough to give the reconnaissance scouts time to make their way to a place near the Dong Nai River, where there was room for the Cobra to touch down for just a moment.
  — Brian Murphy, Washington Post, 2 Feb. 2024
• Ultimately, the ploy is a subset of the more mundane phone scam, whose victims number in the millions.
  — Tatiana Siegel, Rolling Stone, 5 Aug. 2022
• The Real news could very well be a ploy to give Dortmund an indication of what the player deems a fair package.
  — Manuel Veth, Forbes, 4 May 2023

Last Updated: 7 May 2024