yodel

Example Sentences

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As I crooned “I’ll Never Get Out of this World Alive” along with Hank Williams, I added a little yodel.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 4, 2025

Sam: We were like gearing up to send a single to country radio and we did a lot of touring with... do you remember the yodel kid Mason Ramsey?

From BBC • Jan. 16, 2021

“In ‘Passacaglia,’ which was written first, the way the voices stretch past bel canto to belting sounds and the yodel break—those two techniques were the ground floor.

From The New Yorker • Feb. 4, 2019

Carol Burnett and her Tarzan yodel returned to series TV for the first time in decades with the recent arrival of Netflix’s “A Little Help With Carol Burnett.”

From Los Angeles Times • May 10, 2018

But this time it was more of a yodel than a groan.

From "Cheaper by the Dozen" by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey