yodel

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Recent Examples of yodel Musgraves grew up in tiny Golden, Texas, and started singing (and yodeling) as a precocious kid in an oversize cowgirl hat. Mikael Wood, Los Angeles Times, 13 Mar. 2024 And 16-year-old Ruby Leigh nearly did give McEntire a win in her first season as coach but the yodeling sensation was ultimately just edged out for the title by Virginia native and team Niall singer, Huntley. Melissa Locker, Southern Living, 29 Dec. 2023 The youngster has mastered the art of yodeling, a talent that earned her a four-chair turn. Lars Brandle, Billboard, 28 Nov. 2023 Sadie: Every morning at 6 a.m., a bird yodeled outside my window at Rancho de la Luna. Daniel Kohn, Spin, 1 Sep. 2023 See all Example Sentences for yodel 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for yodel
Verb
  • To lend the appearance of vitality, junk cars driven by mannequins populated the parking lot to the backdrop of warbling holiday tapes played on low-fidelity loudspeakers.
    Douglas C. Towne, The Arizona Republic, 18 Dec. 2024
  • Phoenix, who doesn’t seem accustomed to singing, much less very interested in it, is forced to warble his way through song numbers while Gaga refuses to lay down a dichotomy between what’s real versus fantasy concerning her character’s musical talents.
    Nicholas Bell, SPIN, 17 Dec. 2024
Verb
  • The record-breaking superstar and brand partner will bring his country croons recognizable moves to the stage for fans 21+ during sport’s biggest weekend.
    Skyler Caruso, People.com, 23 Jan. 2025
  • One recent afternoon at the coffeehouse Partisan Café Artisanal, a favorite stop in the Upper Marais for those in the fashion and creative industries, Sade crooned overhead while a parade of coffee seekers, including Salome Bravard, 24, filed in.
    Vivian Song, New York Times, 21 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • So, the economy is humming, and the Fed finally admits it.
    Brett Owens, Forbes, 16 Jan. 2025
  • Perhaps this staging area includes the steampunk-ish hell-basement filled with ominously crackling and humming electrical equipment that sucks Cooper through a portal (sans shoes, like a religious pilgrim entering a house of worship) and reincarnates him on the floor of Dougie’s secret other place.
    Matt Zoller Seitz, Vulture, 16 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • The former president's endorsement process has evolved from haphazard to sharp and effective, rendering all other endorsements all but obsolete.
    Kaleigh Rogers, ABC News, 13 Sep. 2024
  • That included everything from off-center parts at Simone Rocha to sharp, contrasting textures at KNWLS.
    India Espy-Jones, Essence, 21 Sep. 2023
Verb
  • Any minute now, the mockingbird will trill at me to go to bed.
    Edan Lepucki, The Atlantic, 12 July 2024
  • At dawn, cooing doves and trilling Eurasian blackbirds woke me.
    Nina Burleigh, New York Times, 21 May 2024
Verb
  • Charlie Woods is trolling his dad’s indoor golf skills!
    Danielle Jennings, People.com, 15 Jan. 2025
  • That’s not a surprise, but the Lawrence Police Department trolling Penn State while sharing a tip for driving in the snow certainly was unexpected.
    Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 10 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • And since Joan herself, with that quavering soprano, is a fierce customer, famous in her own right, she’s done with being treated like Dylan’s accessory.
    Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 10 Dec. 2024
  • The reflections of the icebergs quavered in the water, which was blue to the edge of purple.
    Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2024

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“Yodel.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/yodel. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.

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