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.
Like most items in the music department of the same phenomenon, it is a riff.
Your body-and-soul riff accounts for why the world through the prism of movies seemed to open up toward the end of this year--to seem so fluid that even Elvis the Destroyer had an out-of-body experience.
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.
The musical descriptions in Miller's book strike me as flat and formulaic, as in: "An up-tempo rocker built around a boogie riff and a dramatically unconventional modulation between major and minor keys, 'Hold Me Tight' was written in one style alone--that of John Lennon and Paul McCartney."