Riff in a sentence

The record's production sounded very different from anything else on country radio at the time, built around an up-tempo but rugged acoustic guitar riff and featuring a lead dobro riff that was actually one of the hooks of the song.

RIFF Student Scholars attend last year’s RIFF Academy and learn about the process of filmmaking through industry-led workshops.

Viewed one frame at a time—measure by measure, riff by riff, lyric by lyric—it’s difficult to point to anything that marks Whitney as a band making music in, or for, 2019.

Dio would sing across the riff, whereas Ozzy would follow the riff, like in "Iron Man".

An A.I. might not know the difference between originality and outlandishness; it might riff on the Sparkling knot by trying to insert the wheel of a car, or the tie-wearer’s wrist.

Compositions and bursts of music on the soundtrack recall Benning’s prior work (the feature is a riff on his 1975 film of the same name co-directed with Bette Gordon) and America’s own vast, complex history.

David Robert Mitchell's "It Follows" is a modern horror classic, a sex-infused riff on "The Ring" that sees a curse being passed along via intercourse.

Every riff is a truck coming right for you.

He just needs a good coach guiding the offense so that he’s able to riff off of what happens in the run game and lean on his clutch ability in order to help his team win games.

I do love their chemistry, their ability to riff off each other, and, obviously, their faces.

I don’t know, stare into a window, even from a distance, and if you’re common riff-raff, you might go to jail.

In 1976, Arkin starred as Sigmund Freud in the Herbert Ross-directed Sherlock Holmes riff “The Seven-Per-Cent Solution” with a top-flight cast that included Robert Duvall, Laurence Olivier and Vanessa Redgrave.

In a year when creamy things chucked in a bowl too often marked the meal’s end, the best dessert gong has to go to the beautiful chocolate work enclosing the gorgeous riff on rhubarb served to me at at Grantley Hall, near Rippon.

Larry Elder told the Deseret News he believes Ramaswamy’s riff on fatherlessness, in which he praised the nuclear family as “the greatest form of governance known to mankind,” was taken from Elder’s own stump speeches.

Oh, and it’s all happening August 25 – a month ahead of RIFF’s kickoff – to capitalise on the weather.

Over the raggedly revved riff of “Satanist”, they take things further, asking: “Will you become a satanist with me?

Portland's funniest folks riff on the day's headlines at this comedy showcase organized by low-key festival favorite Lee H. Tillman.

So I dumped the cup of ice on his head as a riff.

That gave director Jonathan Lynn license to riff on all of those classic tales of disparate people trapped inside a single location with a murderer lurking among them.

The catchy distinctive guitar riff that opens “Just What I Needed” was borrowed from the song “Yummy Yummy Yummy” by the Ohio Express.