Example Sentences

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Since the beginning of touring “Achtung Baby,” we were riffing on this idea of “even better than the real thing.”

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 14, 2024

The Critics Choice writers were likely behind the joke and possibly were riffing off DeBose’s divisive performance last year at the BAFTAs, which drew online mockery that ultimately drove the actor off X, formerly Twitter.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 16, 2024

“We were riffing about that and doing the whole dismantle-the-patriarchy thing.”

From Washington Post • Nov. 27, 2021

This work was made by the artists Eva and Franco Mattes, who were riffing on the famous “ceiling cat” image first posted online in 2006.

From New York Times • Apr. 4, 2019

Like all good caricatures, these interviews capture something of the truth, even if with exaggeration, and, as in all good interviews, the subjects speak freely, as if they were riffing unguardedly among friends.

From The New Yorker • May 14, 2015