yodel
verb (used with or without object)
to sing with frequent changes from the ordinary voice to falsetto and back again, in the manner of Swiss and Tyrolean mountaineers.
had yodeled
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past perfectof yodel.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Before the first meeting ended Idaho's tent-show Senator Glen Taylor had yodeled and played his guitar, and Congressman Homer Angell of Oregon had urged the elders "not to despair or grow weary."
From Time Magazine Archive
He had helped me to gather wild flowers, made me whistles from branches cut from the pussy willows, and had yodeled for me as joyfully as for loved ones in his Alpine home.
From The Expedition of the Donner Party and its Tragic Fate by Eliza Poor Donner Houghton
