| Although vocables do not have a strict linguistic meaning, singers use them to communicate with and motivate the dancers. |
| Without words and almost with the seriousness of asylum nurses they at once set upon an unsavoury-looking matron who began to cry out Mediterranean vocables of distress. |
| Straight songs are often composed of vocables and are used as a warm-up for fancy dancers who dance in a straight upright posture. |
| Beyond the vocables, the lyrics of the songs suggest an indigenized form of blues music in that they contain stories of love and loss. |
| In fact, with its high percentage of non-lexical vocables, the whole is redolent of a piece used to accompany dancing in the absence of an instrument. |
| Most nigunim are wordless and are sung by individuals or groups using vocables, which vary from community to community. |
