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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Not a single second of daylight is saved by this ploy.
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Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 May 2025
State media reporting that Rubio might attend could be a misinformation ploy amid stalled peace negotiations for a ceasefire in the war Putin started.
—Brendan Cole
yevgeny Kuklychev, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 May 2025
They were found guilty of stealing over one million dollars in jewelry, cars, and more in what was called an elaborate ploy.
—Armon Sadler, VIBE.com, 16 Apr. 2025
Early in 2008, when Clinton briefly welled up in a coffee shop after a bruising loss in the Iowa caucus, the moment was interpreted as being a melodramatic scandal fit for TMZ and a cynical ploy for attention that eventually won her New Hampshire.
—Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 15 Apr. 2025
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Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 May 2025
State media reporting that Rubio might attend could be a misinformation ploy amid stalled peace negotiations for a ceasefire in the war Putin started.
—Brendan Cole
yevgeny Kuklychev, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 May 2025
They were found guilty of stealing over one million dollars in jewelry, cars, and more in what was called an elaborate ploy.
—Armon Sadler, VIBE.com, 16 Apr. 2025
Early in 2008, when Clinton briefly welled up in a coffee shop after a bruising loss in the Iowa caucus, the moment was interpreted as being a melodramatic scandal fit for TMZ and a cynical ploy for attention that eventually won her New Hampshire.
—Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 15 Apr. 2025
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“Ploy.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ploy. Accessed 10 Jun. 2025.
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ploy
noun
: a trick designed to embarrass or upset an opponent
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