Sentence examples for might be a ploy from inspiring English sources
Miss Mary rejected the offer, fearing this building might be a ploy.
The belligerent talk from Washington might be a ploy to intimidate Tehran, a calculated move to turn Trump's unpredictable nature into strategic leverage.
Growing up, I always thought my hometown was anonymous, but I didn't suspect until much later that its anonymity might be a ploy.
Asked whether he had at first thought that those two running black youths might be up to no good, he said yes; when one of them stumbled, he had thought it might be a ploy.
The police feared that the trouble at the mosque might be a ploy to incite police action against Muslims and generate the kind of television images — Muslims at worship being attacked by helmeted police in the nation's capital — that would jeopardize the American hostage situation in Tehran and set off an international call to arms.
The police feared that the trouble at the mosque might be a ploy to incite police action against Muslims and generate the kind of television images Muslims at worship being attacked by helmeted police in the nation's capital that would jeopardize the American hostage situation in Tehran and set off an international call to arms.
Analysts said Holmes a Court's offer--not as high as some had expected, given the intense speculation he had created--might be a ploy to get Murdoch to negotiate the sale of some of his newspaper interests to Bell Group.
The CIR smells a rat: it thinks the new enforcement efforts might be a Flashmanlike ploy to reduce the appeal of unions.
And Dan Snyder's dedication to "Redskins" might be a cynical ploy as well – raising the outrage stakes so high that he can blackmail concerned citizens and football fans into building a replacement for his only 17-year-old stadium in exchange for relinquishing the name.
This might be a good ploy though.
But tmz.com, a celebrity Web site, suggested that the crash might be a "brilliant marketing ploy" because a video of it showed no reaction by an onlooker.
