Sentence examples for a cheap ploy from inspiring English sources

"I joke that it's a cheap ploy to get kids to come into my office".

Then it was Macklemore & Ryan Lewis's "Thrift Shop," a cheap ploy to snare the casual listener.

That was just a cheap ploy to make me draw you as a dancing egg in slacks.

So your daughter's consumer-advocate pose (who is she, the Ralph Nader of pepperoni?) seems like a cheap ploy for free pizza.

To the uninitiated, all this Nigella talk might seem like nothing more than a cheap ploy to get a few more dads to go to the pictures.

Many critics of Israel believe that such a statement is a cheap ploy to justify colonial ambitions, but right or wrong this is the reality of the country's collective psyche.

This is a false, self-serving, and cheap ploy to knock the press and civil rights leaders.

"Killing animals is a cheap ratings ploy and sends an especially harmful message to young viewers, who are greatly influenced by what they see on TV.

IT IS the most generous budget for a very long time, says the government; a cheap electoral ploy, sneers the opposition.

When the commercials featuring Mr. Pietri first aired, the Paterson administration dismissed them as a cheap political ploy that ignored the state's perilous financial condition.

It's a good sign that this will not go over well when two prominent African-American columnists, Jason Whitlock on Foxsports.com and Mike Freeman on CBSSports.com, quickly call it a cheap, hypocritical ploy.