How to Use riffraff in a Sentence

riffraff

noun

• Try not to associate with that riffraff.
• The common riffraff, the ones All too ready to mix it up.
  — Douglas O. Linder, Scientific American, 20 Oct. 2020
• Tour buses are no longer allowed to cruise the street, and the stores have other ways to keep out the riffraff.
  — Laura Randall, Washington Post, 13 June 2019
• For a bar owner, tossing the riffraff is a matter of survival.
  — al, 1 Dec. 2022
• With the label maker, the riffraff of my kitchen—homemade dukkah! Preserved radish!
  — Sarah Jampel, Bon Appétit, 23 Apr. 2020
• Right now, companies and governments want to make sure that the riffraff is out of the space so that the masses can trust it.
  — Rose Minutaglio, Cosmopolitan, 31 Jan. 2018
• At Twitter, King Troll has opened the gates of hell, letting back in all the riffraff the previous owners kicked out.
  — al, 1 Dec. 2022
• This is much more than rich people participating in some fight to keep the riffraff off the lake.
  — Washington Post, 27 Aug. 2017
• In those days, design students were not allowed to go to the school lunchroom because we weren’t supposed to mingle with the art school riffraff.
  — New York Times, 3 Oct. 2019
• But at Goethals, prospective buyers have to pass a screening interview with Mr. Valente, who keeps out the riffraff.
  — Anne Kadet, WSJ, 17 Oct. 2017
• Yes, the usual riffraff tried gatecrashing and engaged in drunken brawls.
  — Tribune News Service, cleveland, 10 July 2021
• Aaron wants stars, aspiring-stars, and pure riffraff in the same loud room with garage ops and billion-dollar corporations.
  — Cole Louison, GQ, 3 Apr. 2018
• She was raised on a 3,000-acre cattle ranch in Santa Barbara, and in isolation since, in Francis’s view, even the local gentry was riffraff.
  — Lili Anolik, Vanities, 14 Dec. 2017
• This keeps the riffraff at bay, but can also cause the body to reject unrecognized things like transplanted organs.
  — Breanna Draxler, Discover Magazine, 24 Jan. 2013
• Decapitated the Mexicans. Erected steel walls to keep the riffraff out. Sucked these hills barren of gold.
  — John Timpane, Philly.com, 31 July 2017
• Can the people with the largest and most loyal followings really wade through the riffraff, the jokesters, the unqualified to find the candidate of their dreams who is also not a stalker?
  — Kenzie Bryant, Vanities, 24 Apr. 2017
• Then came the rare native Hawaiians, then the various riffraff of white newcomers from the continent, then the Chinese with their skill in amassing money.
  — John Dos Passos, National Review, 28 Sep. 2020
• In , historian Ted Gioia reclaims the story of music for the riffraff, insurgents, and provocateurs.
  — Ted Gioia, Smithsonian, 18 Oct. 2019
• But our approach activated the club’s riffraff-control system.
  — Ruth Walker, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 June 2017
• Imagine the bargain-hunting riffraff such an establishment might attract.
  — Rex Huppke, chicagotribune.com, 10 Mar. 2021
• Other series like The Sims use reality as a canvas, using realistic imitations of your favorite house plants, candles, posters and the other riffraff that pepper your world to reconstruct a more relaxing one.
  — Aigner Loren Wilson, Washington Post, 18 Jan. 2023
• Looking freshly unexpected need not mean transmitting the careless disregard of today's airport riffraff.
  — J.j. Martin, Harper's BAZAAR, 18 Nov. 2008
• Land of the Dead (2005), in which the remaining living humans had walled themselves into their own fortified city to keep the riffraff out, was a meditation (with zombies) on gentrification as a mode of social and geographical segregation.
  — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 18 July 2017

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024