How to Use ploy in a Sentence

ploy

noun

• Her story about being sick is only a ploy to get you to give her money.
• The ploy didn’t work, and Arizona turned the ball over on downs.
  — Michael Lev, The Arizona Republic, 24 Nov. 2021
• His lawyers counter the suit was a ploy to avoid being cut out of his will.
  — Kate Stanhope, latimes.com, 22 May 2018
• Demi knows this is a ploy to make James give Kelsey a rose.
  — Ali Barthwell, Vulture, 25 Aug. 2021
• Four of the men pleaded guilty to charges connected to the ploy.
  — Mary Kilpatrick, cleveland, 31 Dec. 2019
• The ploy would buy them an extra year of parental leave from Co-op shifts.
  — Jill Lepore, The New Yorker, 8 Dec. 2019
• The ploy enabled her to avoid prison for an extra six months.
  — Kristina Davis, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 July 2022
• So is ranking Ohio State 11th a ploy to get his Tigers fired up?
  — Chris Bumbaca, USA TODAY, 22 Dec. 2020
• The ploy sent Fisch on a journey across college football and the NFL.
  — Chronicle News Services, SFChronicle.com, 23 Dec. 2020
• But the student didn't fall for the ploy and insisted classmates keep the door shut.
  — Nicholas Nehamas and David Ovalle, miamiherald, 11 July 2018
• Wasn’t that always just a ploy by Logan to pull her away from Gil?
  — Kevin Sullivan, Robb Report, 17 Oct. 2021
• The game is now so pervasive that the ploy is easier to spot.
  — Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 23 Dec. 2023
• Johnson’s ploy demonstrates that the mission is still alive and well.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 3 Nov. 2023
• Their ploy was copied and the ‘third back game’, as it was then known, became the standard system.
  — Michael Cox, New York Times, 12 June 2025
• The focus was on people, the machinations and ploys of city dwellers.
  — Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 7 May 2018
• But Rayburn’s ploy only allowed the clock to stop and the defense to get set up.
  — Robert Avery, Houston Chronicle, 1 Jan. 2020
• Ukraine had not agreed to a truce, viewing it as a ploy for Russian forces to regroup.
  — Paulina Villegas, Washington Post, 8 Jan. 2023
• Would be cool to see trump call them out on their obvious ploy.
  — Gord Magill, Newsweek, 22 Dec. 2024
• Tuesday’s free lunch campaign was a ploy by Grubhub to get users back on the app.
  — Ali Francis, Bon Appétit, 19 May 2022
• The move could also be a ploy by Hawley to drum up support from Trump's base.
  — Aric Jenkins, Fortune, 30 Dec. 2020
• Was that just a staged ploy to amass hype for a single that was already written?
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 15 June 2022
• Otho takes the lead in holding seances to bring the dead back to life as an entertainment ploy.
  — Lisa Stardust, Peoplemag, 6 Sep. 2024
• The ploy broke a decades-long taboo in German politics.
  — Jim Tankersley, New York Times, 24 Feb. 2025
• The ploy broke a decades-long taboo in German politics.
  — Jim Tankersley, New York Times, 24 Feb. 2025
• The use of genre is just a ploy to talk about human beings and society.
  — Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 6 Sep. 2023
• And this isn't just some ploy to get people to click some links and buy stuff, Harris assures.
  — Hannah Chubb, PEOPLE.com, 1 Oct. 2021
• Because of the time crunch, experts say that the Democrats could try to use a parliamentary ploy to throw a wrench in the works.
  — Jane Mayer, The New Yorker, 5 Oct. 2020
• The rather obvious ploy involves using a foul word in a prompt.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 5 Feb. 2023
• Maybe this is part of a ploy to divide the Democratic Party.
  — Adrian Walker, BostonGlobe.com, 16 July 2019
• Macfarlane’s history begins in 1971 when a young law scholar named Christopher Stone, seeing that his students were bored senseless by his efforts, tried a desperate ploy.
  — Daegan Miller june 5, Literary Hub, 5 June 2025