Sentence examples for and the ploy of from inspiring English sources

Their means of defense are the emission of an odorous secretion from large anal glands and the ploy of rolling up, presenting erected scales to the enemy.

"I hope you understand that we can differentiate between genuine teamwork and the ploy of someone caught with his hand in the cookie jar," Mr. Spitzer wrote.

Turner talks of the sublime; others talk of the pleasures of wig-making, the fascination of snake-swallowers ("you just pinch their tail and they'll hop in there") and the ploy of putting leeches inside young prostitutes to make clients think they are having a virgin.

None of England's revamped defence suggested they would start at the World Cup as central defensive pairing Chris Smalling and Phil Jones looked uncertain and the ploy of playing James Milner at right back was not a success.

Chris Gayle played his extended forward defensive to hit Kyle Mills for a straight six and even though the ploy of sending in Andre Russell did not work they were 60 for two from six overs.

This made the ploy of differentiating the times and doing careful bookkeeping about just which things were obligatory at which times promising.

They'd either used the ploy (of dialing the competition's customer service number and showing how long the wait time was) before, or Jim is comfortable going with Dwight's flow, at least in that kind of setting.

Crying that the "other guy" is worse is the ploy of a schoolyard bully.

The ploy of cosmetically colorizing the G.O.P. could work once, but it is unlikely to work forever.

The ploy of disguising secretly financed political machines as tax-exempt "social welfare" organizations has become one of the trademarks of modern politics.

The ploy of disguising secretly financed political machines as tax-exempt "social welfare" organizations has become one of the alarming trademarks of modern, big-money politics.