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.
• The ploy didn’t work, and Arizona turned the ball over on downs.
  — Michael Lev, The Arizona Republic, 24 Nov. 2021
• Demi knows this is a ploy to make James give Kelsey a rose.
  — Ali Barthwell, Vulture, 25 Aug. 2021
• The ploy enabled her to avoid prison for an extra six months.
  — Kristina Davis, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 July 2022
• Wasn’t that always just a ploy by Logan to pull her away from Gil?
  — Kevin Sullivan, Robb Report, 17 Oct. 2021
• The game is now so pervasive that the ploy is easier to spot.
  — Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 23 Dec. 2023
• Johnson’s ploy demonstrates that the mission is still alive and well.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 3 Nov. 2023
• Ukraine had not agreed to a truce, viewing it as a ploy for Russian forces to regroup.
  — Paulina Villegas, Washington Post, 8 Jan. 2023
• Tuesday’s free lunch campaign was a ploy by Grubhub to get users back on the app.
  — Ali Francis, Bon Appétit, 19 May 2022
• Was that just a staged ploy to amass hype for a single that was already written?
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 15 June 2022
• Otho takes the lead in holding seances to bring the dead back to life as an entertainment ploy.
  — Lisa Stardust, Peoplemag, 6 Sep. 2024
• The use of genre is just a ploy to talk about human beings and society.
  — Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 6 Sep. 2023
• And this isn't just some ploy to get people to click some links and buy stuff, Harris assures.
  — Hannah Chubb, PEOPLE.com, 1 Oct. 2021
• The rather obvious ploy involves using a foul word in a prompt.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 5 Feb. 2023
• 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.
  — cleveland, 16 Oct. 2021
• Or maybe the name was just a ploy for attention—which worked, as the internet has been abuzz about the car for months now.
  — Joey Capparella, Car and Driver, 26 May 2022
• This is risky ploy, and Apple needs to get the value proposition right.
  — Gordon Kelly, Forbes, 10 Jan. 2023
• Is this all an elaborate pump-and-dump type of ploy (not likely)?
  — Jacob Carpenter, Fortune, 14 Apr. 2022
• The risk for Biden is that the budget ploy is likely to prompt complaints of gimmickry.
  — Justin Sink, Bloomberg.com, 26 Mar. 2022
• Ukrainian and Western officials have scorned the truce as a ploy.
  — Arkansas Online, 7 Jan. 2023
• The ploy seemed to work, with fans praising the company on social media.
  — Emily Heil, Washington Post, 18 July 2023
• The Democrats' ploy worked out in their favor -- Bailey bested Irvin in the primary.
  — Brittany Shepherd, ABC News, 29 June 2022
• There is also a fiendishness that can lurk within the hot potato ploy too.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 1 Aug. 2022
• Liz thinks it’s yet another ploy to knock her down a few pegs and refuses to go.
  — Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 11 Oct. 2021
• No spoilers, by the way, on whether that ploy actually worked or not.
  — Andy Meek, BGR, 2 Dec. 2022
• Ukraine dismissed the call to put down weapons as a ploy and refused to participate.
  — Ian Lovett, WSJ, 8 Jan. 2023
• This may have been a ploy to keep us ordering Stage Two Nuggets until our hair turned gray.
  — Anne Fadiman, Harper’s Magazine , 10 Feb. 2023
• At the time, Porter denounced the effort as a political ploy.
  — Seema Mehta, Los Angeles Times, 17 Feb. 2024
• Is this a ploy by the school to increase the fund-raising manpower and the motivation to raise funds?
  — Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 2 Feb. 2024
• The basic story begins when townspeople invent a ploy to defeat him: inviting Zozobra as a special dinner guest.
  — Heather Mundt, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 10 Nov 2024