Example sentences for: riffs

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

  • The most hilarious bits, critics say, are his riffs on masturbation and on growing up as a working-class Latino.

  • The New York Times has published innumerable editorial riffs on these themes.

  • West goes on tremendous name-dropping riffs.

  • Ellison's first love was jazz--he played the trumpet--and many of the passages in Juneteenth are extended riffs in a kind of free-form verbal polyphony.

  • 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).


How many words do you know? Try our free vocabulary size test!


Search

Search for example sentences

Loading Loading...
Quantcast