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Example sentences for: riff

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Michael ( Roger & Me ) Moore recycles a riff from his recent book tour: Instead of reading The Nation and joining food co-ops, leftists should connect with working-class Americans by watching sports and joining bowling leagues.
There's despair in this notion, and frivolity--it's a good 20 minute riff at a cocktail party but not the stuff of a book.
Now there's a riff on You Only Live Twice (1967), now a hyperbolic parody of Thunderball (1965), now a piece of lame slapstick involving an electrical swivel chair.
He'll drop everything for a goofy face, a riff, a flaky bit of business.
There's the slightly tired riff about deadbeat dads: Lily's ex-husband promises to show up at their daughter's soccer game, but forgets about it until Lily angrily reminds him.