Sentence examples for old ploy from inspiring English sources

Democrats say that is an old ploy that will not work this year.

As the television season winds down, both "The Sopranos" and "Malcolm" resort to that old ploy -- the pregnancy scare (raised earlier this year on "Once and Again").

The IRS has boasted of having nearly wiped out this tired old ploy in recent years.

An old ploy is to buy yourself a cash value insurance policy, pay for it with a loan against the policy and deduct the interest.

David Bentley, Whitley Bay: Old ploy pack them in, they spend alot you spend little, make a lot of money, thats all the people think about that run these places,drab cheap and nasty.

The age allegation, wrapped in the guise of "inexperience" is an old ploy.

Using controversy to increase ratings is an age-old ploy.

Henry's needy henchmen — he used the age-old ploy of recruiting the poor to rob the rich — did as their king commanded.

This far from Andy Warhol and Duchamp, the dismissal of originality is perhaps the oldest ploy in the postmodern playbook.

Others suggest the missile launch was an age-old ploy to boost Trump's approval ratings and distract Americans from the mess he has created domestically in less than 100 days.

If so, that is one of the oldest ploys in Albany and certainly at odds with Mr. Cuomo's promise of a new New York.