How to Use motel in a Sentence

motel

noun

• For three years, Cindy raised her four children in a motel room while working multiple jobs.
  — Holly Yan, CNN, 9 Oct. 2022
• Keen and her husband, Gary, rode out the storm in a motel a few miles inland, counting themselves lucky to get a room at the last minute.
  — Trevor Hughes, USA TODAY, 27 Sep. 2024
• Area hotels, motels and inns were said to be full and some rallygoers arrived Friday.
  — Adriana Gomez Licon, Chicago Tribune, 6 Oct. 2024
• Walloch may have been living at a motel, which would qualify him as homeless under a definition service providers use.
  — oregonlive, 20 Oct. 2022
• There are many differences between managing a five-star all-inclusive hotel on the coast and an economy motel by the country road.
  — Daniel Berman, Forbes, 11 Oct. 2022
• Once the plot gets rolling and the iconic shower scene unfolds, the focus has shifted to the home and motel owned by Norman Bates and his mother.
  — Tiffany Acosta, The Arizona Republic, 5 Oct. 2024
• The 11- and 14-year-old made the move from a motel room in St. Louis to Sacramento with a single suitcase.
  — Erica L. Green, New York Times, 13 Oct. 2022
• Martinez-Gutierrez was arrested two days later at a motel in Escondido.
  — City News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Oct. 2022
• Officers tracked the suspect’s vehicle to a motel room and arrested the suspect, according to Lee’s office.
  — Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 5 Oct. 2024
• Though the search of the motel produced no evidence that could connect Moody to Brittanee Drexel, details from the pullover provided clues.
  — ABC News, 14 Oct. 2022
• After tracking Casey and Vicky to a nearby motel, law enforcement began staking out the location and preparing to apprehend them.
  — Rachel Brodsky, TIME, 25 Sep. 2024
• Police searched the motel room and found drugs, a cell phone and a gun.
  — Landon Mion, Fox News, 3 Mar. 2024
• This weathered motel is more of a place to stop than a place to stay.
  — Stefanie Waldek, Country Living, 24 Feb. 2023
• Lee agreed to stay in a motel room while the meeting happened.
  — Abraham Josephine Riesman, Rolling Stone, 19 Mar. 2023
• Police said they were told the man had been staying at the motel about a week.
  — Harry Harris, The Mercury News, 22 Mar. 2024
• At the '50s throwback motel, Knight finds a guest named John Stevens.
  — Sara Netzley, EW.com, 15 Nov. 2022
• Yong Prince plans to retire and has a contract to sell her motel at the end of next month.
  — Shimon Prokupecz, CNN, 31 Jan. 2024
• Michigan State Police found drugs, cell phones and a firearm in the motel room.
  — Kate Linderman, Kansas City Star, 1 Mar. 2024
• Freeman stayed with friends, and then at motels and Airbnbs.
  — Charles Bethea, The New Yorker, 8 May 2024
• Not much happened at four in the morning, even at a motel.
  — Caleb Crain, The New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2024
• After the deputies left the jail with Wu in the back seat, the three cars from the motel reappeared, Thompson said, and shadowed the Tahoe on the highway.
  — Sebastian Rotella, ProPublica, 14 Mar. 2024
• Nearly a year ago, the fire marshal’s office said a 48-year-old man was killed in a fire at the same motel.
  — Dan Belson, Baltimore Sun, 4 Feb. 2024
• Van Treese owned the motel where Glossip was the manager.
  — Austin Sarat, The Conversation, 2 May 2023
• Her daughter, Lanoix, also in the motel room, was pronounced dead on the scene.
  — Tristan Balagtas, Peoplemag, 31 Oct. 2022
• The 18-year-old disappeared from her motel room one night.
  — Chris Eberhart, Fox News, 13 Mar. 2023
• Casey White and Vicky White drove out of the motel in the Cadillac and law enforcement followed in tow.
  — Ivan Pereira, ABC News, 6 Oct. 2023
• Ryan had checked into the motel using an alias and a fake address.
  — Emily St. Martin, Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2023
• Makes a person want to hunker down in some retro motel room and listen to the radio.
  — Laura Collins-Hughes, New York Times, 8 Nov. 2023
• One, the Rodeway Inn, was a hot-sheet motel that had menaced its neighbors for years.
  — Paul Solotaroff, Rolling Stone, 1 July 2023
• For the next three nights, the man drove Williams back and forth between his motel and the hospital, so Williams could visit her.
  — Laura Kwerel, NPR, 6 May 2024

Last Updated: 29 Oct 2024