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Example sentences for: ploy

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

The Spanish fell for the ploy and fled, grossly overestimating the strength of the English garrison, which couldn’t have mustered a third shot at that time.
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.
This is very economical of space and involves a clever computer ploy, but it does not provide a particularly useful synonym dictionary, for, as we all know, synonymy in language does not yield to the mathematical law that states, “Things equal to the same thing are equal to each other.”
Only a few cynics have accused the space agency of a ploy for more funding.