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Example sentences for: riff

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