Say what?! Hilarious sentences used at Bee finals

There's nothing that cuts tension quite like a well-placed joke.

Lucky for viewers and stressed-out finalists during 2015 Scripps National Spelling Bee, pronouncer and 1980 bee winner Jacques Bailly was full of hilarious, zeitgeist-filled sentences during Thursday's tense final between the top 10 spellers.

Here are the sentences used for context during the competition, provided to the USA TODAY Network by Scripps:

Dane was horrified to find his mother had prepared bouillabaisse as a sleepover snack for his friends.

Angela appreciated the souvenirs her mother brought home with her from Egypt, except maybe the cerastes that slithered out of her carry-on.

The priest, philosopher and reformer Jan Hus introduced the haček into Czech orthography.

When Marnie accused him of being lazy lounging in a hammock all day, Pranjal countered by saying his bone marrow was hard at work through cytopoiesis.

Rumor has it that Drake's next mix-tape contains a rap in which every verse begins and ends with a bacchius.

The monk explained that several external obstacles had to be overcome in order to attainsamadhi, but promised Sarah that getting through the 15th level of Candy Crush was not one of them.

After losing to a dancing dog last year, Marissa was confident that playing an Albumblatt while balancing a sword on her chin would finally win her first prize in the talent show.

The campus of Saint Louis University has a statue of its mascot, the billiken.

As a budding young poet, the third-grader found Hippocrene in the graceful spill of Izadora's long brown hair, though it's unclear why that led him to repeatedly pull it.

In addition to opposing jaws, a gnathostomealso has teeth and paired appendages.

The critic attributed 50 percent of the singer's fame to réclame, and the rest to Auto-Tune.

Bryan was grateful that having his MP3 player and headphones on the car trip kept him from suffering the Tartarean depths of his sister's taste in music.

While looking for her dropped tortillon in art class, Susan Marie found yesterday's chewing gum -- and it was still good.

When Ari returns home for Passover, the minhag is for his family to eat unleavened bread and also for his mother to ask him if he is seeing anyone.

The first time Kathy tried to cook moussaka, the result was a cardboard-like brick that could barely be considered cibarial.

Dr. Sietsema tells me he knows so much about the movie Frozen that he feels like his brain has the lyrics to Let it Go written in every zygoneure.

Jason tolerated Blair's odd taste in food until he saw her eating a bowl of Cheerios bouquetière.

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