Example sentences for: tactic

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

  • Gore's tactic has worked perfectly.

  • It did not perform this kind of analysis from the enemy's perspective ("red team" analysis), even though suicide terrorism had become a principal tactic of Middle Eastern terrorists.

  • 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.

  • Sometimes Skeat's tactic when confronted, either with evidence of error--which occurred very rarely indeed--or with a complaint about his overbearing lack of tolerance of those who knew less than he or had committed the unpardonable sin of failing to have both his books and the latest fascicle of the OED at hand, was to go all soft with humility.

  • The article ends with a sample tactic dismissed during the war with Yugoslavia: "to bombard the Yugoslav leadership with faxes and other forms of harassment."


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