Not my usual ploy, but hey, I'll try anything once.

I was not allowed to smile, duck my head or arrange my hands across my chin - usual ploys when confronted by a camera.

Showing up late or leaving early, the usual ploys of listeners averse to demanding contemporary fare, will avail them nothing here.

I'm well acquainted with all the usual ploys.

Your usual ploy in such cases.

A usual ploy was to have to re-tie one's gym shoe just as one's turn came round, but it only staved off the evil moment.

Besides, his usual ploy is to wait in the bushes and grab at his victims as they walk past.

For a while, Becker had used the usual ploy of having the computer sound like a husky-voiced woman, but he'd found he wasn't getting much work done.

The usual ploy was to nail the victim in a crowd, putting a low-caliber pistol to the head, and pow, it was all over.

This is the usual ploy used by most minerals operators in designated areas.