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Example sentences for: ploys

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Most consumers, studies have shown, believe themselves impervious to the pitiful ploys of advertising.
Short of bringing your own dinner in a paper bag (only acceptable for Carol Channing and people with severe food restrictions), Prudie suggests you incorporate the following two ploys: Do not finish everything you are served, and push the unconsumed portion around on your plate.
Gore: Debates aren't ploys.
The winner is the master of the cleverest ploys and strategems [ sic ]." Moreover, Chinese leaders are "quick to find fault in others" and try "always to appear bold and fearless."
Using one of the former's most powerful ploys, it chooses to come at the viewer obliquely via a human face, a human tragedy, that carefully fronts the industry behind.