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:

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.
Like most items in the music department of the same phenomenon, it is a riff.
Bradley's other best riff came after Gore asked him again why he hadn't put money aside for Medicare.
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.
He'll drop everything for a goofy face, a riff, a flaky bit of business.