Words similar to riff

Example sentences for: riff

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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.
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 stories exemplify the macho, leave-the-Joneses-in-the-dust attitude on which you so charmingly riff.
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.