Sentence examples for ploy has worked from inspiring English sources

So far, the marketing ploy has worked to perfection.

If that makes them lie low for a while, the US will claim that its ploy has worked – though the public may never know for sure how serious the threat was in the first place.

The NPR saber rattle ploy has worked to perfection in years past.

The ploy has worked over and over again, and now everyone seems petrified of being tagged with this label.

The diver's ploy had worked.

Despite his team's 92-88 loss, Carter seemed to think that his ploy had worked.

He cited the agreement between Washington and the Spanish as evidence that his ploy had worked.

It is a breathtakingly cynical ploy, but in the past it has worked to cow Democrats into silence, if not always submission, and herd Republicans back onto the party line.

It's a ploy that might have worked had the home nations all been in separate groups, but which makes the magazine look two-faced given that England and Wales play each other on 16 June.

If Graeme Souness had timed the signing and subsequent unveiling of Hakan Sukur as a deliberate psychological ploy, it could scarcely have worked better as the Worthington Cup holders eased into the last eight last night.

Where DeLay is concerned, at least, the ploy hasn't worked.