Sentence examples for ploy like from inspiring English sources

Not a marketing ploy like some basketball superstar changing his uniform number, but a statement: I'm growing up.

But it occurred to me that his words could just as easily have been a marketing ploy, like the four-hour warning in the Cialis ads.

Maybe it's a clever ploy: like Glenn Greenwald's April 2012 Salon story on Poitras, this public exposure will keep the government off her back by raising the cost (in moral reputation) of snooping on her without charges.

It's an empty and increasingly outdated marketing ploy, like those terrible bars in London named after New York neighbourhoods – or worse, the yuppie apartment complex currently going up in Tottenham, north London, in which the units are called things like Tribeca and Bushwick.

To be sure, the event, We Do, is a publicity ploy like Alibaba's recently announced drone pilot program.

We didn't want to use sexiness as a marketing ploy, like DJ Da Candy, for example, but rather a consistent performance which was clichéed and tacky, but believable.

Hanna says The Grounds' liberal use of Instagram catnip in the form of upcycled jam jars and resident farmyard animals is not a deliberate ploy for likes.

It's true that sperm banks use creepy marketing ploys, like charging more for donors with graduate degrees.

Calls are automatically routed first to those workers who keep callers on the line the longest, with scripted ploys like pretending to see -- very slowly -- winning Lotto numbers.

The movie suggests that Americans deserve to be spun by ploys like this; they're too weak-minded, too distractible, not to be taken.

"I was certainly involved in it," Thomson, a member of the Hillsong Church said, adding that there were other Liberal ploys like the "sale of artwork for inflated prices".