"standard" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- There is a standard ploy that intelligence agencies use for infiltrating their enemies, Michelle.
- A standard ploy is to go from library to library picking up volumes until a complete set is assembled.
- The ogre ducked, throwing up a fist in his standard defensive ploy, but the dragon's mass bore him down.
- One standard ploy is to say so much in a dedication that the author says nothing.
- "Seen it before--it's an old Soviet standard ploy to get us to expose our hands."
- He took a satisfying breath, having expended the standard ploy.
- The threat appeared to be a standard ploy, since it came up nearly every time they visited together.
- What is it, some sort of standard ploy?
- Questioning others' virtue is a standard right-wing ploy seldom used by the other side except to deplore lying.
- It was the standard ploy, straight from the guide manual.
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