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:

(They had tried to implicate Jimmy Carter's Chief of Staff Hamilton Jordan as a coke user in the meantime, but the ploy didn't work.)
Sources say that Maître-Créche's unusually stiff sentence resulted from a legal ploy that backfired.
Bradley: That "Come here, shake my hand"--that's nothing but a ploy.
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.”
Bradley's contemptuous response was to tell Gore, "Sounds to me like you're having trouble raising money," and to call Gore's proposal a "ploy."