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
  • Michael Bublé’s perennial favorite Christmas wasn’t far behind, soaring from No. 9 to No. 2 as Australians embrace his crooning holiday classics.
    Jessica Lynch, Billboard, 30 Dec. 2024
  • Her solitude is broken when two fellow students rush up, crooning her name in unison.
    Sara Netzley, EW.com, 30 Dec. 2024
Verb
  • The end-of-year flex of consumer strength marks the latest indication of resilient U.S. buying power, which has kept the economy humming despite a prolonged stretch of high interest rates.
    Max Zahn, ABC News, 7 Jan. 2025
  • The pressure and spotlight will fixate on the player most likely to succeed Gabriel, who in his one year with the program finished third in the Heisman Trophy voting and kept Oregon’s offense humming after the record-setting year by Bo Nix in 2023.
    Christopher Kamrani, The Athletic, 5 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
  • Trump trolled him for weeks and now this news comes [cry laughing emoji].
    Hannah Parry, Newsweek, 6 Jan. 2025
  • Or is there more to the Canada mention than a desire to troll Prime Minister Justin Trudeau?
    Ron Elving, NPR, 28 Dec. 2024
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 13 Jan. 2025.

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