Sentence examples for cheap ploys from inspiring English sources

These cheap ploys of expression make us feel solid.

Cheap ploys like Marc-Edouard Vlasic's shoving Perry from the back to the boards and grating words delivered to Getzlaf can be hard to swallow, but the veterans have enough experience to know the most effective response is more points.

"The issue with the work of Tyler Shields isn't so much that he's copying so many artists' work though his shouldn't be an artistic model to aspire to but that his appropriations replace the unique vision of the original with the cheap ploys of shock or nostalgia," she said in an email.

"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.

Like every politician I've known, McCain will sometimes surrender to the cheap ploy or prevarication when the moment demands it, but it is often with a smirk or a wince, some hard-to-miss signal that he knows he's up to no good.

It is a cheap ploy to make a man who wanted to find a place in his own city for people of his faith and others to come together manage a cracked preacher in Florida: there is no connection between them, except in Jones's mind, which should not be the deciding one.