Always willing to take risks in order to win, Fender's main objective was to surprise the opposition; legends grew of his successful ploys.

There is no evidence Hart ever had a third child so this rumor, if true, may indicate a successful ploy upon Hart's behalf.

I wish I could present what follows in this narrative as a brilliant and successful ploy on my part, but really it wasn't.

I think they are really stinging from the very successful ploy of painting the Congress as extremist.

This is not an entirely successful ploy to keep the show from looking like a "Perry Mason" retread.

Yet no planned and successful ploy of mine brought me through, for my body still refused any orders I gave it.

But the flight of arrows that followed was a much more successful and deadly ploy.

At least it might be a successful ploy with the Committee, some progress to present, if only in the hardware.

A reversal of ordinary thinking could sometimes result in a successful ploy.

He sold his American artists as well as the English ones, and it proved a successful ploy.