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  • It gave Jaime command of the Kingsguard and a seat on the small council, and allowed Riff to throw a bone to his dog.†  (source)
  • Lenny followed this flurry with an erudite riff on the German word Sprachgefuhl, a feel for language, for what is idiomatically hip—he reads up on things like this in hotels and on planes and back home in the smoky dawn of L. A. while he's waiting for a woman or a pusher.†  (source)
  • It was on the long rides, in Annie's car—which she preferred Mae to drive—that Annie would put her bare feet up or out the window, and would riff on the passing scenery, and would speculate, for hours, on what went on in the bedroom of their coaches, a married couple with matching, almost military, haircuts.†  (source)
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  • THE MISSION STATEMENT for the 2004 MATE Robotics Competition was a significant upgrade from the inaugural event's brief riff on The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.†  (source)
  • I recognized the opening riffs of "Change," by John Waite.†  (source)
  • Then the music started—loud piano keys with an electric guitar riffing right behind it and an abrupt thump of drums.†  (source)
  • Jae and her cousin riffed back and forth as we played cards.†  (source)
  • You can't help wondering again and again how there can possibly be such riff-raff among our own people.†  (source)
  • The rock group Smashing Pumpkins was contributing mantralike riffs from a portable CD player.†  (source)
  • The most disastrous readings are those that are wildly inventive and largely independent of the story's factual content, those that go riffing off on a word out of context or a supposed image that is in truth not at all the image presented in the text.†  (source)
  • I'd asked her recently after one of Gervais's visits, which I had spent alternately struggling with the power rule and sitting by, open-mouthed, as they riffed on the minute details of a recent sci-fi blockbuster, down to the extra scenes after the credits.†  (source)
  • "Will you get in?" begins Mr. Taylor, launching another discursive riff.†  (source)
  • When I finally mastered about two or three saxophone riffs, such as those like "Sad Girl" which the East L.A. band Thee Midniters made popular, I started jamming with a couple of local garage bands.†  (source)
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