How to Use motel in a Sentence

motel

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  • He was told to leave the car parked and stay in his motel room for the rest of the night.
    — cleveland, 19 Aug. 2022
  • The sheriff added that the two had paid for a 14-day stay at a motel in the area.
    — Talal Ansari and Jennifer Calfas, WSJ, 11 May 2022
  • 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
  • One of those in a motel is 45-year-old Rasheena McCord, a mother of four.
    — Jennifer Ludden, NPR, 26 Dec. 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
  • In his dim motel room, flies and dust swirled through a slanted blade of sunlight.
    — Los Angeles Times, 22 July 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The father was staying at the motel with a girlfriend, who was asleep at the time, Simmons said.
    — Phil Helsel, NBC News, 28 June 2022
  • 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
  • Chris’ father purchased the motel from his parents in the 90s.
    — Ryan Ermey,valentina Duarte, CNBC, 22 Oct. 2024
  • 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
  • Open the closet in your hotel or motel room and chances are there’s an ironing board in there.
    — Patrick Connolly, Orlando Sentinel, 15 June 2022
  • In his motel room, Kinney set up a track for miniature slot-cars.
    — Matt Wake | Mwake@al.com, al, 16 June 2022
  • One, the Rodeway Inn, was a hot-sheet motel that had menaced its neighbors for years.
    — Paul Solotaroff, Rolling Stone, 1 July 2023
  • The motel now will serve as a museum and historic site.
    — Kalyn Dunkins | Kdunkins@al.com, al, 30 June 2022
  • Ruth withdraws a gun from her safe and visits Nathan in his motel room at the Lazy O, with the premise of toasting Ben's life and death.
    — Lauren Puckett-Pope, ELLE, 1 May 2022
  • The pair allegedly forced their way into the motel room and ordered Irizarry's boyfriend to go into the bathroom.
    — Phil Boucher, People.com, 27 Dec. 2024

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