Sentence examples for typical ploy from inspiring English sources

At the time, it looked like gamesmanship, a typical ploy from Coach Bill Belichick to pump Woodhead for information about his former team.

This is a typical ploy for an employer who doesn't think the employee is here legally.

That is a typical ploy of the right: make a false claim, and then express indignation about the falsehood.

In a seemingly typical ploy, 42-year-old Darren Kelly was lured to a property in Pitsea, Essex by a 15-year-old girl.

This tarnishing of Kurdish aspirations is a typical ploy of the Islamic Republic, again masking the worries about its restive Kurdish population.

Though the feature is a typical ploy in mobile games, it led to a tremendous slide in playtime, said Industrial Toys Chief Executive Tim Harris.

Typical ploys also haven't worked.

Of course, our walk had been in part a typical parental ploy to instill something meaningful in a child.

The ascription of the Atlantis story to Solon, and beyond Solon to the Egyptians, is a typical Platonic ploy of burying a truth within a set of narrative Chinese boxes and then having it dispensed by unimpeachable guardians.

Instead of manipulating us with typical Hollywood ploys, the movie draws us and keeps in a state of hyper-awareness of the natural world for its 148 minutes.

I had already side-stepped four of the typical negotiation ploys car dealerships use by refusing to be the first one to mention a number and by refusing to play the absent decision-maker game.