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

“To yodel, you have to master that flip,” says Leah Daniels, a country singer from rural Ontario, Canada.

From The Guardian • Jan. 12, 2020

“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

He thought, however, about how lonely people in mountains yodel to the empty peaks and take the echo for a friendly reply.

From "The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge" by M.T. Anderson and Eugene Yelchin