Words similar to ploy

Example sentences for: ploy

How can you use “ploy” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

And of course both the bride's and groom's side can keep expanding the "just one more" ploy, but if it's really just one more, Prudie thinks it is doable.
When shopping, be aware that quality does vary greatly and some bargains may not be what they appear — inferior stone painted to look like marble or alabaster is a favorite ploy around the sites in Upper Egypt.
It's the classic invitation of the memoirist, the ploy that teams reader and writer against the world, and it's also the classic lament of the barroom, which is where Exley's painful story opens.
Praeteritio , that sly rhetorical device of mentioning what one is passing over, belongs to this category of cross-talk: “That goes without saying” covers up the obvious need to say it, and “I will pass over the topic of my opponent's adultery” should be recognizable as the ploy it is.
A frequent ploy in reviewing scholarly books is for the reviewer to chide the writer for not having written the book he would like to have read.