How to Use wah-wah in a Sentence

wah-wah

noun

• Shipp fostered a sound with wah-wah guitar and a tight rhythm section.
  — Chris Kenning, USA Today, 15 May 2026
• Del Casher, the guitarist and inventor whose innovations included the wah-wah pedal, has died at the age of 88.
  — Daniel Kreps, Rolling Stone, 8 Nov. 2026
• Soon after, many of the great rock guitarists of the era, like Jimmy Page, Tony Iommi, David Gilmour, and more, were experimenting with the wah-wah pedal.
  — Daniel Kreps, Rolling Stone, 8 Nov. 2026
• While Casher often credited Thomas Organ’s Brad Plunkett as the engineer of the device, the wah-wah pedal was considered Casher’s brainchild.
  — Daniel Kreps, Rolling Stone, 8 Nov. 2026
• However, Frank Zappa, who used the wah-wah pedal in 1966 when Casher sat in with the Mothers of Invention, gifted a pedal to Jimi Hendrix, solidifying the wah-wah’s place in music history soon after.
  — Daniel Kreps, Rolling Stone, 8 Nov. 2026