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Ploy

Ploy | Ploys

Ploy meaning

A tactic, strategy, or scheme. | Sport; frolic. | Employment.

Example sentences (20)

Botha claimed two, including that of Chris Gayle, thanks to another surprise ploy that saw the converted off-spinner open the bowling.

But it's all just a ploy to get you to call a premium rate international number that will quietly drain your bank.

But the ploy was foiled because officers had already visited the address as part of the investigation, at a time when the window was intact.

But when the time comes for them to kill the Saviors, it is revealed that it was all a ploy, and the plan goes out with a bang as the Scavengers turn on the group.

Eddie, who ran the race team Jordan GP team between 1991 and 2005, credited the ploy with creating a boom in motorsport.

Ferrari boss Fred Vasseur, beaming after securing his first win at the helm of the Scuderia, confirmed the ploy was Sainz’s idea.

Finn sees this "paper energy" as nothing more than a ploy by FortisBC to continue supplying B.C. buildings with natural gas.

First, there was Jessica Roberts (Rekha Sharma), who had the temerity to threaten Caligula in her ploy to escape Misty's basement.

He expressed his frustration and disappointment, stating that the lack of allocation was a deliberate ploy by the government to mar the spirit and celebrations in the region.

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) on Wednesday denounced the recent indictment of former President Donald Trump as simply a ploy to distract from the many probes into President Joe Biden and his son, Hunter.

In 1984, police blocked London’s Dartford Tunnel in a ploy to stop Kentish miners from supporting their striking colleagues in Nottinghamshire.

In a ploy that could be interpreted as playing mind games, Mokwena also highlighted Pirates’ game model.

It could be a well-crafted ploy by the said genius to take over the narrative in the ultimate aim to…what?

It might not be a bad ploy by the skipper on the surface which has assisted the seamers more than the spinners.

It’s a passage where the conventional dry-an-end-up ploy would have frustrated the Australian batters.

Kendall said he was grateful for among Republicans in the senate who think Tuberville’s ploy is misguided, despite frustration with the Pentagon’s abortion tourism rule.

Let’s assume for a moment that this is an actual negotiation ploy, though.

Meanwhile, his social media actions have spurred speculations about his intention, with some wondering whether it could be a supposed ploy to get talked about.

Mr Adebutu is praying the court to restrain any of the respondents (except the APC chairman) from arresting him, an act he described as a ploy to prevent him from prosecuting his governorship election petition against the governor.

On Friday, Putin ordered a 36-hour ceasefire for the celebrations, but Kyiv rejected it as Moscow’s ploy to buy time and regroup and Russian and Ukrainian forces exchanged artillery fire after the announcement.