Words similar to riff

Example sentences for: riff

How can you use “riff” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

He'll drop everything for a goofy face, a riff, a flaky bit of business.
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.
The stories exemplify the macho, leave-the-Joneses-in-the-dust attitude on which you so charmingly riff.
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.
Still, I think Miller's somewhat overheated "Dionysian" riff does make an important point: that even a music with the crassest commercial aims can have liberating, transformative effects in the world.