Example sentences for: tactic

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

  • His advisers call this their "rope-a-dope" strategy, referring to the boxing tactic of shielding your head with your gloves and making your opponent exhaust himself by uselessly pummeling you against the ropes.

  • It's a common debating tactic to assert that some respected figure of the past would endorse your position on some controversy of the present.

  • Surprisingly, Safire did not explain how this works by providing the most famous example of the tactic: Nixon's knowingly taped Oval Office statement that yes, he could raise money to silence the Watergate burglars, "but it would be wrong."

  • Sure, viruses do spread and data are occasionally lost, but the main reason you hear so much about security is that it's a great marketing tactic.

  • "Risky tax scheme" is the Democrats' most concerted attempt to turn this tactic against the GOP.


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