Sentence examples similar to a ploy for getting something from inspiring English sources

Don't do your friend a favor as a calculated ploy for getting something that you want later; do it out of the goodness of your heart.

We want a country where you get something for something, not something for nothing".

The stories of his outraged behaviour in restaurants and hotels, his subtle ploys for getting a drink when he needed one, become real for the children, too.

But you cannot get something for nothing.

I know this is just a ploy to get back at me for insisting on separate bathrooms and then taking first pick.

Get something pretty, something for spring.

So perhaps the call for a third runway at Heathrow is only a ploy to get at the leadership - as Tim Yeo put it, is the PM "a man or a mouse"?

Colorful foods are fine for kids' birthday parties, but using green ketchup as a ploy to get kids to eat vegetables is going too far.

It's a ploy' " to get the Americans involved.

Maybe it was just a ploy to get me to take it over.

It is a ploy to get credit card numbers and $40 or $50.