How to Use motley crew in a Sentence

motley crew

noun
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  • Our project is staffed by a motley crew of volunteers who have a wide variety of day jobs.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 28 Nov. 2021
  • Of course, the only thing your motley crew will actually be battling over is who gets the last piece of candy.
    — Kaitlin Stanford, Parents, 5 Oct. 2023
  • The motley crew attends a Knicks game and goes shopping in the Big Apple, naturally.
    — Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 31 July 2023
  • She’s had an enviable motley crew of doll friends who’ve stood by her through the decades, and her dollhouse mansions put Bel Air mega estates to shame.
    — Parija Kavilanz, CNN, 22 July 2023
  • For a movie that was supposed to be about the end of the road for Marvel Studios’ deep-space motley crew, mid-credits and post-credits scenes were all about beginnings.
    — David Betancourt, Washington Post, 5 May 2023
  • Running to home base has never felt so urgent for this motley crew of beautifully flawed grown men.
    — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 18 Apr. 2024
  • The people who trap, neuter, and release them—a process known in the animal-rescue world as TNR—are a motley crew of passionate volunteers.
    — Seyward Darby, Longreads, 5 July 2023
  • Of course, the main event in any Agatha Christie thriller is the motley crew of suspects whose hidden motivations and connections eventually come to light.
    — Ann Hornaday, Washington Post, 11 Sep. 2023
  • And with that, our motley crew SXSW dream team had been assembled: three journalists, a cameraman, and a six-year-old who couldn’t care less about cryptocurrency.
    — Ben McKenzie, Rolling Stone, 17 July 2023
  • In hopes of a return to her youthful days, Venetia finds community in an entertaining motley crew of lost souls.
    — Lorraine Berry, Los Angeles Times, 15 May 2024
  • As a motley crew of resourceful out-of-towners and hooky-playing locals slowly gathered during the afternoon, the sun was out — the tattooed guns and buns were out — and normalcy reigned, for a few hours at least.
    — Ben Crandell, Sun Sentinel, 14 Apr. 2023
  • Prodigy follows a motley crew of young aliens who must figure out how to work together while navigating a greater galaxy, in search of a better future.
    — Denise Petski, Deadline, 20 June 2024
  • The two college biology students and a pair of local high school seniors, one in a LeBron James jersey, hop in, along with a yellow village dog who will trot alongside the motley crew all night.
    — Nina Burleigh, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Jan. 2024
  • In the underworld, Catrina assembles a motley crew of the dead for their annual pilgrimage.
    — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 3 July 2023
  • There are many solid gags among this motley crew — the pirate forever chasing his false eye, the parrot trained to speak for its mute master, the series of fetching wenches who deliver slaps to Sparrow for past wrongs.
    — Kirk Honeycutt, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 July 2023
  • Our motley crew of three men and three women—all midlife professionals working in media, coaching, and the corporate worlds—convenes in Tamraght, a small, quietly touristy town full of surfers.
    — Nirpal Dhaliwal, Condé Nast Traveler, 18 Mar. 2024
  • As the host to a motley crew of Los Angeles natives and town-invading comedians, Mulaney seems to be testing the waters for what kind of comedy his audience wants from him now.
    — Aja Romano, Vox, 11 May 2024
  • How about design flaws of those animatronic exoskeletons?) and a motley crew of vandals bent on sabotage.
    — Jen Yamato, Los Angeles Times, 27 Oct. 2023
  • In the main plot, a motley crew arrives for the Asteroid Day and Junior Stargazer celebrations only to become stranded after a shocking alien encounter.
    — Dallasnews.com Staff, Dallas News, 24 Aug. 2023
  • Meanwhile, a motley crew of sightseers becomes divided over how real this shipwreck holiday should be.
    — Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 15 July 2024
  • This motley crew has potential, but Y2K miscalculates the impact of certain character deaths.
    — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Mar. 2024
  • In addition to being the simplest animals, sponges have also outsourced much of their labor to a motley crew of microbes that live symbiotically inside of their bodies.
    — Max Bennett, Discover Magazine, 15 Jan. 2024
  • Zeus and his motley crew of immortals are as petty, territorial and devious as their human underlings.
    — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 26 June 2024
  • And yet even with all the beauty of exploring Ireland's patchwork green countryside and pursuing the end of every rainbow, incredibly, Scahill managed to get more than a dozen performers to join our musical motley crew on tour.
    — Lori Nickel, Journal Sentinel, 7 Mar. 2024
  • Viewers got a weekly explosion of boundary-pushing sketch comedy through irreverent skits delivered by a motley crew of characters with then-burgeoning hip-hop as the backdrop.
    — Starr Rocque, Peoplemag, 20 Feb. 2023
  • Over decades, a motley crew of foresters, ecologists, and conservationists worked on afforestation, soil restoration, and water conservation projects within Auroville.
    — Mahima Jain, WIRED, 18 Mar. 2023
  • Mixing familiar tropes with a behind-the-scenes look at this unusual family business, Circo Gómez will see one family working together to hone their acts, manage a motley crew of bizarre performers and keep their crumbling business from imploding.
    — Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 May 2023
  • But a centuries-long collaboration between a motley crew of explorers and astronomers eventually yielded longitude: imaginary vertical lines radiating north to south around the globe.
    — Emefa Addo Agawu, New York Times, 23 Mar. 2024

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