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:

1 most fascinating person under wraps until the show's close--a shameless marketing ploy, but I'm dying to know which wretched figure from Bimbroglio she's chosen.
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.
Presumably the pundits are right, and Dole's desperate ploy will fail.
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.
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.