Sentence examples for ploy with from inspiring English sources

Some spammers have already countered this ploy with auto-response software.

This is a greedy ploy with the only benefits going to them".

It's a marketing ploy with its degree of affectation; an object of fascination to foreigners rather than a worrying condition.

I decided to test out my ploy with the teenager, who looked like she was familiar with frivolous trends.

In the estimation of Afghan and American investigators, Mr. Farnood's theft, like his ploy with the American investigators, was the act of a gambler.

To some extent, officials said, the administration's floating of a "zero option" for troops is a bargaining ploy, with both the Pentagon and with Mr. Karzai.

Jon Huntsman wasn't on hand, but a week later he answered his rivals' verbal ploys with a visual one.

Like its main source, the Annals of Tacitus, the play has a connoisseur's interest in the ploys with which the corrupt hold on to power.

Fielding sons Ryan and Cameron, instead of more senior players, was always going to be a ploy fraught with danger for Edwards.

The fevered attempt to create such a block, in a ploy hatched with the Japanese bank Nomura, looks to have come too late.

But forget any talk of revivals for a moment and focus on what's right in front of us: the f-word used as a marketing ploy, albeit with blushes saved by a strategic typo.