Sentence examples for ploy in from inspiring English sources

"It's a total marketing ploy, in my opinion," he said.

The unsettling effect is very much a deliberate ploy in the artist's work.

Nicholas uses every manipulative ploy in the book to confound his supposed family and the law.

Prosecuting political opponents on financial charges is a favourite ploy in autocratic post-Soviet regimes.

"It could be a brilliant marketing ploy in the face of enforcement success," Dr. Shoptaw said.

His initial fame came from a publicity ploy in 1930 during the Depression.

"It's just the latest ploy in the Republican agenda of disrespecting the health of American women," she said.

Quoting opponents out of context is a familiar ploy in politics, but that doesn't make it any less outrageous.

Professor Cox thinks the distinction ties into the concept of "incongruity," or subverting expectation — a common ploy in humor.

This kind of brinkmanship, long a standard ploy in the negotiations of major American orchestras, often works.

The "give" in material was always a central ploy in his work, his curvatures hard and soft, brittle and friable.