How to Use ploy in a Sentence
ploy
noun
- Her story about being sick is only a ploy to get you to give her money.
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The ploy didn’t work, and Arizona turned the ball over on downs.
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Michael Lev,
The Arizona Republic,
24 Nov. 2021
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Demi knows this is a ploy to make James give Kelsey a rose.
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Ali Barthwell,
Vulture,
25 Aug. 2021
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The ploy enabled her to avoid prison for an extra six months.
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Kristina Davis,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
6 July 2022
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Wasn’t that always just a ploy by Logan to pull her away from Gil?
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Kevin Sullivan,
Robb Report,
17 Oct. 2021
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The game is now so pervasive that the ploy is easier to spot.
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Andrew C. McCarthy,
National Review,
23 Dec. 2023
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Johnson’s ploy demonstrates that the mission is still alive and well.
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Michael Hiltzik,
Los Angeles Times,
3 Nov. 2023
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Ukraine had not agreed to a truce, viewing it as a ploy for Russian forces to regroup.
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Paulina Villegas,
Washington Post,
8 Jan. 2023
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Tuesday’s free lunch campaign was a ploy by Grubhub to get users back on the app.
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Ali Francis,
Bon Appétit,
19 May 2022
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Was that just a staged ploy to amass hype for a single that was already written?
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Spencer Kornhaber,
The Atlantic,
15 June 2022
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Otho takes the lead in holding seances to bring the dead back to life as an entertainment ploy.
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Lisa Stardust,
Peoplemag,
6 Sep. 2024
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The use of genre is just a ploy to talk about human beings and society.
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Nick Vivarelli,
Variety,
6 Sep. 2023
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And this isn't just some ploy to get people to click some links and buy stuff, Harris assures.
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Hannah Chubb,
PEOPLE.com,
1 Oct. 2021
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The rather obvious ploy involves using a foul word in a prompt.
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Lance Eliot,
Forbes,
5 Feb. 2023
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One was that the op ed was published on the very same day her book went on sale, a clear ploy to generate more sales.
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cleveland,
16 Oct. 2021
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Or maybe the name was just a ploy for attention—which worked, as the internet has been abuzz about the car for months now.
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Joey Capparella,
Car and Driver,
26 May 2022
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This is risky ploy, and Apple needs to get the value proposition right.
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Gordon Kelly,
Forbes,
10 Jan. 2023
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Is this all an elaborate pump-and-dump type of ploy (not likely)?
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Jacob Carpenter,
Fortune,
14 Apr. 2022
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The risk for Biden is that the budget ploy is likely to prompt complaints of gimmickry.
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Justin Sink,
Bloomberg.com,
26 Mar. 2022
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Ukrainian and Western officials have scorned the truce as a ploy.
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Arkansas Online,
7 Jan. 2023
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The ploy seemed to work, with fans praising the company on social media.
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Emily Heil,
Washington Post,
18 July 2023
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The Democrats' ploy worked out in their favor -- Bailey bested Irvin in the primary.
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Brittany Shepherd,
ABC News,
29 June 2022
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There is also a fiendishness that can lurk within the hot potato ploy too.
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Lance Eliot,
Forbes,
1 Aug. 2022
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Liz thinks it’s yet another ploy to knock her down a few pegs and refuses to go.
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Maggie Fremont,
Vulture,
11 Oct. 2021
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No spoilers, by the way, on whether that ploy actually worked or not.
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Andy Meek,
BGR,
2 Dec. 2022
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Saadi El said the highway stop may have been a publicity ploy by Rise of the Moors.
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BostonGlobe.com,
7 July 2021
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Ukraine dismissed the call to put down weapons as a ploy and refused to participate.
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Ian Lovett,
WSJ,
8 Jan. 2023
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This may have been a ploy to keep us ordering Stage Two Nuggets until our hair turned gray.
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Anne Fadiman,
Harper’s Magazine ,
10 Feb. 2023
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These types of ploys will generally lead customers to a fake login portal, which will capture their login details.
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Will McCurdy,
PCMAG,
13 Oct. 2024
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To be sure, both Democratic and Republican politicians have engaged in the typical campaign ploy of sounding tough on China.
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Jessica Chen Weiss,
Foreign Affairs,
16 Sep. 2024
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