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Example sentences for: riff

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

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.
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.
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.
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.
He'll drop everything for a goofy face, a riff, a flaky bit of business.