Sentence examples for one ploy from inspiring English sources

One ploy currently in vogue -- with many variations on the theme -- has a headhunter call a company, posing as a prospective date who has lost the name and phone number of the nice guy she met at the gym the night before.

One ploy often used to play down growing inequality is to rely on rather coarse statistical breakdowns -- dividing the population into five "quintiles," each containing 20percentt of families, or at most 10 "deciles".

One ploy Mr. Ertel has abandoned, however, is growing facial hair.

"Five hundred a week is nothing," he told MGM, in one ploy to double his salary.

(One ploy is to make enclosed spaces, like those in an 'a' and 'e,' bigger than they need to be in print).

One ploy would be for him to take up a more liberal stance in the hope of weakening western governments' determination to deny Serbia reconstruction aid as long as he remains in power.

One favorite ploy was to plant a "fact" or manufacture a recollection that would send program annotators afield.

(One good ploy used by "The Financial Lives of the Poets" is to keep redefining "sensible" as it goes along).

And now they have nothing but excuses, bad ideas and -- as the clock runs out -- one last ploy".

One common ploy, Ms. Carlquist said, is buying a ticket for a short ride and using it to go much farther.

One subtle ploy was to break my knee so that I could roll over stampeding feet in a wheelchair, while poking folks with my crutches.