How to Use yodel in a Sentence

yodel

1 of 2 verb
  • While the ship is docked in Grein, a local singer will come on board and teach you how to yodel.
    — Jacqui Gifford, Travel + Leisure, 15 Mar. 2023
  • Like Google’s, this video brings up the kid who yodeled in a Walmart.
    — Kaitlyn Tiffany, Vox, 20 Dec. 2018
  • The youngster has mastered the art of yodeling, a talent that earned her a four-chair turn.
    — Lars Brandle, Billboard, 28 Nov. 2023
  • This country duet won the crowd's hearts (and now ours) because who else can yodel a country song and be this cute?
    — Madison Alcedo, Country Living, 26 Sep. 2017
  • Neil Salsich isn’t strictly a country singer, but the guy sure can yodel.
    — Mary Colurso | [email protected], al, 7 Mar. 2023
  • Find an old cowhand with an old guitar To yodel me joyfully on my way.
    — Carson Vaughan, New York Times, 1 Apr. 2018
  • Try turning on the subtitles and sing and yodel away as a family.
    — Karen Cicero, Parents, 5 Mar. 2026
  • The Walmart yodeling boy probably thought the same was true for him.
    — Mikael Wood, The Mercury News, 28 June 2019
  • Spring is just around the corner and there's no better way to enter the season of renewal than singing, or maybe yodeling.
    — Jeff Piorkowski/special To Cleveland.com, cleveland.com, 23 Feb. 2018
  • The now-infamous Walmart yodeling boy is set to take the stage at Coachella.
    — Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 13 Apr. 2018
  • The 11-year-old went viral this spring after yodeling a Hank Williams song at Walmart.
    — Carter Karels, San Antonio Express-News, 29 May 2018
  • 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
  • Ramsey also provides viewers with some of his signature yodeling before Bebe Rexha jumps in for a hug from the young star.
    — Rebecca Schiller, Billboard, 20 May 2018
  • If Chris or Julia were to yodel from their accommodation, the celebs would almost definitely hear them in camp.
    — Alicia Vrajlal, refinery29.com, 13 Apr. 2023
  • Around us were families, couples, people shouting, babies crying, yodelling, banjos, bongos.
    — Charisma Madarang, Rolling Stone, 20 Mar. 2023
  • The boy yodeling at Walmart, too, has inspired many to create their own musical mashups, capitalizing on his pure a cappella vocals.
    — Raisa Bruner, Time, 6 Apr. 2018
  • As a student of Irish poets and literature, her songs incorporated yodeling and Gaelic words unknown to most.
    — William Goodman, Billboard, 16 Jan. 2018
  • Modern paleontologists often refer to those extinct dinosaurs as non-avian -- that is, non-bird -- dinosaurs to distinguish them from avian dinosaurs, the ones with feathers that fly and yodel in the spring.
    — Steven Austad, AL.com, 14 Apr. 2018
  • The young boy who went viral for yodeling his heart out in the middle of a Walmart was the unexpected hero of the first weekend of popular music festival Coachella.
    — Cady Lang, Time, 16 Apr. 2018
  • Night of German culture and art; entertainment, stein-holding competition and yodeling contest.
    — Jennifer Jhon, South Florida Parenting, 4 Oct. 2017
  • When summer reaches the Alps of southwestern Austria’s Tirol Province, yodeling farmers gather in the dawn light to urge drowsy cows into milling herds.
    — Danielle Bernabe, National Geographic, 15 Sep. 2019
  • Young Mason became an internet sensation earlier this year when a video of him yodeling at a Walmart in Illinois got a huge reaction online.
    — Lucas Aulbach, The Courier-Journal, 11 May 2018
  • The hosts’ rendition began with Rogers melodramatically singing over the piano melody until Yang joined in for a go at the verses, yodeling his voice into the upper register.
    — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 17 June 2026
  • From Friday to Sunday, singers and alphorn players filled the streets and spontaneous bursts of yodeling echoed through restaurants, where diners initially reacted with surprise before joining in.
    — Jez Fielder, Fortune, 30 June 2026
  • From Friday to Sunday, singers and alphorn players filled the streets and spontaneous bursts of yodeling echoed through restaurants, where diners initially reacted with surprise before joining in.
    — ABC News, 29 June 2026
  • Along the way, individual chapters recount episodes of moose hunting, cow wrangling, yodeling, horse riding, cross-country ski racing, caring for his son after an accident, and learning to be an Opa — a grandfather.
    — Nancy Lord, Anchorage Daily News, 10 Feb. 2018
  • The first is marked by a yodeling refrain that places what's to come somewhere between Appalachia and the Alps, befitting a quintet that spans time, space and subject matter, united only by Coen's singular voice.
    — Jordan Riefe, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Sep. 2019
  • After a slew of song and dance routines, Miss Louisiana — Laryssa Bonacquisti — took the stage with two puppets and performed a ventriloquist act, complete with yodeling!
    — Jeff Nelson, PEOPLE.com, 11 Sep. 2017
  • Humans have practiced some form of yodeling since at least the 13th century, when Marco Polo encountered Tibetan monks on his travels who used the vocal technique for long-distance communication.
    — ArsTechnica, 3 Apr. 2025
  • O’Riordan’s yodeling vocals, sung in her thick brogue, were as distinctive as her shorn head and punkish on-stage persona, helping to usher The Cranberries onto the global stage during the early 1990s.
    — Flora Carr, Time, 16 Jan. 2018

yodel

2 of 2 noun
  • That's a world-class voice crack, the type that sounds like a yodel.
    — Daniel Rapaport, SI.com, 6 Jan. 2018
  • My voice just does that—a little tiny ghost of a yodel at the end of some lines.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 18 Sep. 2024
  • Tarzan, perhaps with a yodel, grapples with the problems of a colonial empire.
    — Wm. Roger Louis, WSJ, 23 Mar. 2018
  • The yodel, along with everything else, allows her instrument to lure you.
    — Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 11 Dec. 2024
  • This is acoustic-minded rock music, with vocal harmonies, pedal steel, maybe even a yodel.
    — John Adamian, courant.com, 23 Dec. 2017
  • Roan leans in here with feeling, drenching the song in fiddle and even getting close to a yodel in her vocal delivery.
    — Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 2 Dec. 2025
  • Reba's mother passed on the gift of yodel to the Queen of Country, who doesn't have to be asked twice to show off her skills.
    — Maggie Fremont, EW.com, 27 Sep. 2023
  • Mike added the long ‘California’ yodel and the bridge and was exactly what the song needed.
    — Spin Staff, Spin, 22 Aug. 2023
  • Coyote howls are high-pitched and often preceded and interspersed with yips, cackles, and yodels.
    — Paul Richards, Field & Stream, 14 Sep. 2023
  • Mason’s yodel was caught on camera and was subsequently shared across the internet.
    — Diana Pearl, PEOPLE.com, 5 June 2018
  • Ramsey nails the vocals of the tune, as expected, as well as his characteristic yodels.
    — Rania Aniftos, Billboard, 8 June 2018
  • During the summer, they can be identified by their shiny black head and bill, small red eyes, and distinctive calls — tremolo, wail, yodel, and hoot.
    — Margeaux Sippell, BostonGlobe.com, 1 July 2018
  • The bleacher bums behind me began to emit guttural effusions, a sort of existential, yowling yodel.
    — Michael Powell, New York Times, 31 Oct. 2019
  • O'Riordan's trademark powerful, unique voice, with its yodels and Irish accent, came to characterize the band's sound.
    — Author: Elahe Izadi, Anchorage Daily News, 15 Jan. 2018
  • And adding to the sustained yodel of Swiss pride are 16 life-size, fiberglass cows popping up all over town, decked in folk costumes that would do Heidi proud.
    — Raphael Kadushin, National Geographic, 7 Aug. 2020
  • Gerold Schneider’s resounding yodel, belted out from 7,710 feet, signals the start of the ski day in Lech.
    — Jen Murphy, Condé Nast Traveler, 19 Dec. 2017
  • That yodel made it into this intro, alongside some other magic-conjuring field recordings, and the no-input mixing from Audrey.
    — Daniel Kohn, Spin, 1 Sep. 2023
  • While nobody knows exactly how yodel dogs first crossed the Great River, equally few could question their prominence in the 21st century.
    — Hampton Bourne, Field & Stream, 22 Nov. 2023
  • His uniqueness includes singing in unison with a fast guitar lick, using falsetto and maybe an occasional yodel and writing complex and difficult-to-perform guitar parts.
    — Sheryl Devore, chicagotribune.com, 4 May 2021
  • Other desserts included red velvet yodels, signature sweets from Cafeteria and cupcakes from Baked by Melissa.
    — Ashlyn Robinette, People.com, 29 Aug. 2025
  • Focus was a mostly instrumental band known for its electrifying or terrifying yodels on the earlier hit Hocus Pocus.
    — Mike Oliver | [email protected], al, 14 Sep. 2019
  • On stage, longtime performers Jimmy and Eckhard sing traditional German songs and yodel while playing the accordion, spoons, alpine bells, the singing saw and even a large alpine horn.
    — Vincent Crampton, OrlandoSentinel.com, 6 May 2018
  • Part of his way of taking it yokel — besides bringing in Foo Fighter Rami Jaffee on accordion and Willie Aron blowing harmonica — was to add a previously unheard yodel to the chorus.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 27 Oct. 2025

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