How to Use stratagem in a Sentence

stratagem

noun

• This disagreement doomed any stratagem that the large states could have launched.
  — Jack Rakove, WSJ, 16 Sep. 2022
• And by Monday, after a year of legal stratagems on his part, both charges had been dropped.
  — Max Londberg, kansascity, 24 Oct. 2017
• Nor is the climactic battle scene that will hinge on a one-chance-in-a-million stratagem.
  — Author: Michael O'Sullivan, Anchorage Daily News, 18 Dec. 2019
• The authors believed this stratagem to be worse than electoral fool’s gold.
  — Kyle Sammin, Washington Examiner, 12 Nov. 2020
• The first stratagem of the racist is not to quote Adolph Hitler, or George Wallace, or bad science, or heretical religion.
  — John Archibald | [e-mail], al, 16 Jan. 2022
• When his stratagems work, or simply seem to work, he’s heralded as a genius.
  — Ezra Klein, Vox, 7 Nov. 2018
• If geopolitics can be likened to a game of chess, there are a finite number of gambits and stratagems available on every board.
  — Vance Serchuk, National Review, 12 Sep. 2019
• Armed with the insight, Jill tries and fails to rouse him from his slumbers (a sly and symbolic stratagem, involving the family dog).
  — Richard Brod, The New Yorker, 10 Sep. 2021
• The second stratagem is to close the microscopic pores — stomates — found mostly on the undersides of the leaves.
  — Adrian Higgins, Washington Post, 20 July 2019
• One of their most effective stratagems was the bankrolling of right-wing primary candidates for House and Senate seats.
  — Bill Hewitt, Washington Post, 23 Aug. 2019
• Although evocative of a Robert Ludlum thriller, the stratagem is not all that complicated.
  — Carl M. Cannon, Orange County Register, 23 Apr. 2017
• That's a VERY overblown way of thinking of course, for a lot of different reasons, but the stratagem does have merit, in that the stakes and the story are presented in dramatic fashion.
  — Will Nevin, OregonLive.com, 22 Aug. 2017
• The switch, after 2010, to defer a big chunk of Mr. Ghosn’s pay was obviously a stratagem to keep him in harness while easing the pressure on French and Japanese politicians.
  — Holman W. Jenkins, WSJ, 21 Dec. 2018
• Such laws are a cynical stratagem aimed at depriving unions of resources.
  — Los Angeles Times, 20 Apr. 2021
• While most plants rely on the sun for energy and food, some pursue a strange alternative stratagem: thievery.
  — Douglas Main, Newsweek, 29 Dec. 2016
• This is a common stratagem, said Dove, the psychology researcher.
  — Cezary Podkul, ProPublica, 13 Sep. 2022
• The zombie blood stratagem was not employed, keeping the series logical for at least another week.
  — Steve Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 19 Mar. 2018
• That uncertainty is compounded by the fact that three state legislatures would have to intercede for Trump’s new stratagem to pay off.
  — Ian MacDougall, ProPublica, 20 Nov. 2020
• These slimy stratagems attracted the attention of the Department of Justice.
  — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 16 July 2019
• Some had resorted to adding eligible-looking strangers on Facebook, a stratagem unheard-of before the war.
  — Hwaida Saad, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Jan. 2020
• Kelly is quietly devastating in a scene where Emma is the victim of a cruel stratagem.
  — Don Aucoin, BostonGlobe.com, 11 May 2023
• And the familiar stratagem: Make mischief with the formula, while still making movies that feel formulaic.
  — John Anderson, WSJ, 9 Feb. 2023
• The war, which dragged on longer than many viewers liked, turned on a surprising, satisfying plot twist that saw Rick's band go from seeming defeat to victory, even if the stratagem didn't stand up to close analysis.
  — Bill Keveney, USA TODAY, 15 Apr. 2018
• Wily Odysseus uses the answer as a successful stratagem to escape the Cyclops’ grasp, but, abandoned by the gods and his relatives and friends, Orestes confronts the reality of nullity.
  — Steven G. Kellman, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 June 2017
• Second, the savings stem from shelter-in-place orders, a novel government stratagem to control a pandemic.
  — Alex Davies, Wired, 27 Apr. 2020
• As such, the Eagles propose that a team could be granted two opportunities per game to retain possession after a score without having to use the onside kick stratagem.
  — Nate Davis, USA TODAY, 20 Apr. 2021
• Yet, like Mongol missives zinging over city walls, the government’s threats are at once serious and a stratagem to frighten Hong Kongers into disowning the protesters and suing for peace.
  — The Economist, 29 Aug. 2019
• Her Covid-19 coping stratagem predictably involves decluttering, but not for the purpose of allaying boredom or even making a germ-free home.
  — Anne Quito, Quartz at Work, 1 Apr. 2020
• This seemed like a political stratagem (Yang was positioning himself as a candidate who could unite a divided America), but the two stayed in touch.
  — Kelefa Sanneh, The New Yorker, 19 Sep. 2022
• Swain has developed a stratagem for diverting attention from his own tender age.
  — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 7 July 2023

Last Updated: 3 Oct 2024