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.
yodeled
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past participleof yodel.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof yodel.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
yodelverb (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.
Example Sentences
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I don’t know anyone else who yodeled and yee-hawed with as much ease, even as he wrote songs titled “Propinquity” and “Grand Ennui.”
From Washington Post ● Dec. 11, 2021
Kesha, the pop star who first rose to fame with the loopily yodeled party hit Tik Tok in 2009, appeared to suffer a severe legal setback last Friday.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 23, 2016
Viewers can fast-forward past the uninspired and insipid theme song “Writing’s on the Wall,” yodeled by Sam Smith over the opening credits that feature a collage of characters menaced by a giant octopus.
From Washington Times ● Feb. 16, 2016
While working his way through Wagner College on Staten Island and St. John’s University in Queens, he later told his daughter, he yodeled in a country-western band.
From New York Times ● Nov. 29, 2012
She yodeled for me, and I thought it was marvelous.
From "Bad Boy" by Walter Dean Myers
