Sentence examples for ploy fails from inspiring English sources

The ploy fails, and Paul, now consigned to stocking shelves at a supermarket, ponders revenge.

Will the governors require a return to 9pm if the ploy fails?

And if the ploy fails, you can sense Figaro thinking, oh well, nothing is all that serious.

But more often than not, the ploy fails.

In the situation above, the typical white male moderate or even self-proclaimed progressive response is at play, something like "Let's work toward a color-blind society!" This ploy fails on several levels.

Her ploy failed, but they bought the house anyway.

The ploy failed, however, as France again vetoed British entry on Nov. 27, 1967.

The ploy failed, and the couple went to the electric chair in 1953.

The ploy failed, and GBR went on to win by a minute.

That ploy failed, and personal computers running the Microsoft Windows operating system continued to dominate business users' desktops.

Although the perpetrators have sometimes succeeded, typically by deploying brutal force, they have seldom evaded justice when their ploy failed.