How to Use "ploy" with Example Sentences

1. This time , however , the ploy backfired .

2. This ploy permitted comparison between species in which weights have different meanings .

3. The absence of any of these four factors should be a red flag that the so-called report could really be a pump and dump marketing ploy .

4. In that moment it was clear that my ploy to turn this man into a mole had been undone , but in retrospect a broader point was made and one that is vital in the wikileaks era .

5. However , beijing rejected that explanation as a ploy , and responded with a series of measures aimed at strengthening its own claim on the islands .