Sentence examples for his ploy from inspiring English sources

But his ploy backfired.

Has his ploy for attention worked?

Is he certain his ploy will make money?

His ploy exposed, Nüschler was tried, convicted and hanged.

Some didn't want to be identified as having fallen for his ploy.

The menus, which she kept, were his ploy to get her to share his passion.

One of his ploys was an attempt to interest us in a new dish he claimed was a Canadian speciality: steak with vanilla ice-cream.

Although this episodic caper looks like a free-for-all, his brazen schemes require high levels of intelligence and the underlying design of his ploys is quite breathtaking.

Was this television performance, many speculated, just another of his ploys to stay in power, whether as a leader or behind the scenes?Mr Saleh's capacity for slipperiness and manipulation is legendary.

One of his ploys is paying bounties to families of Palestinian suicide bombers.

At first people ignore his ploys, until in a desperate grab for attention, he removes the helmet entirely, concealing it behind his back, before walking into the centre of another circle of revellers, and beaming as he shouts "Have you seen one of these?!" quickly donning the helmet again and spinning around with his hands in the air.