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Example sentences for: riffs

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

West goes on tremendous name-dropping riffs.
Critics love the child's comic riffs but lament that the narrator's voice often sounds more like a middle-age man's than a 9-year-old girl's.
Critics like McEwan's plot twists (you're not sure if the Christian is psychotic until the end) and theoretical bent (high-minded riffs on Darwin and Keats).
The New York Times has published innumerable editorial riffs on these themes.
Overall, though, both shows are riffs on the same Mary Tyler Moore theme, which after 30 years has become the key slogan of TV feminism: They're going to make it after all.