Sentence examples for an opening gambit from inspiring English sources

View all that as an opening gambit.

But, as an opening gambit in a negotiation, it's terrible.

I can only hope the U.S. bristling was an opening gambit.

"Le Corsaire," as an opening gambit, might be viewed as a canny acquisition.

Some group representatives hope that Washington's opposition is an opening gambit toward a discussion with China.

"They are best viewed as an opening gambit from the local government," Mr. Thornton said.

And sexy," was her opening gambit.

It's a canny opening gambit, a reminder that art history's canon remains open-ended.

As they lined up to meet their prince, some of the women shook his hand and let it go at that, and some of them, wanting to make more of an impression, had a strategic opening gambit.

Let's try an unusual opening gambit: at the weekends, I'm a bit like Cormac McCarthy protagonist, Llewelyn Moss.

But they are more than credible efforts to turn a charming opening gambit into a working vocabulary and to infuse form with the irrepressible polymorphousness of words.