Example Sentences

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For that last part, Lind is riffing on the Hot Girl Summer trend brought to us in July 2019 by Megan Thee Stallion, a rapper who eventually released a song of the same name.

From Washington Post • Sep. 26, 2022

On her thinking behind one sample recipe in “Shellfish”: The lobster and artichoke stew is riffing on a traditional oyster stew, which is often little more than oysters, milk and/or cream, and butter.

From Seattle Times • May 17, 2022

It’s raining across the Pacific Palisades and Cheech Marin is riffing on wine connoisseurs, gangsters, Kim Jong Un’s bottle-cap haircut, the Ku Klux Klan and the man he calls “Mr. Peanut,” better known as Atty.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 19, 2018

If I knew more about the specific myths or legends this is riffing on, I might have a richer reaction, as I do with some of later aspects.

From The Guardian • Jul. 14, 2015

No matter how radiantly Mr. Feinstein is singing or how amusingly Dame Edna is riffing, you’re aware of the presence of the other, just waiting to break in.

From New York Times • Mar. 19, 2010