How to Use motel in a Sentence

motel

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  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Price was living with the girl’s mother, Tori Lynn Carter, at a Vancouver motel at the time.
    — Savannaheadens, oregonlive, 28 Mar. 2023
  • During the Super Bowl, some motels charged the Air Force veteran as much as $300 a night.
    — Catherine Reagor, AZCentral.com, 17 Apr. 2023
  • Two officers were dispatched to the motel about 10 a.m.
    — Isabella Volmert, Dallas News, 4 Aug. 2023
  • When disaster threatens, her new friends — a pile of rocks, a rabbit, a cactus, the motel desk clerks— save the day.
    — Staff Author, Peoplemag, 26 Sep. 2023
  • In tonight’s episode, Luann and Sonja plan a happy hour at the motel to help increase tourism.
    — Mike Rose, cleveland, 16 July 2023
  • The public hearing quickly took a turn as parents wanted to know more about the future of the motel.
    — Nicole Lopez, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 22 Feb. 2024
  • The group had planned to return in time to check out of the motel Saturday, according to the police report.
    — Kevin Johnson, USA TODAY, 9 Mar. 2023
  • Within a decade, Howard Johnson had become one of the country’s largest motel chains.
    — Bernice Yeung, The New Yorker, 26 July 2023
  • A couple of gas stations, a liquor store and a small motel line the two main drags, Brontosaurus Boulevard and Stegosaurus Freeway.
    — Markian Hawryluk, CBS News, 25 Sep. 2023
  • The silhouette of a man walking into the motel from further away,.
    — Bianca Bagnarelli, Washington Post, 21 Dec. 2023
  • While driving home from Brown, Conrad, Belly, and Jeremiah are forced to spend the night at a motel when a storm breaks and the highway shuts down.
    — Erica Gonzales, ELLE, 18 Aug. 2023
  • Usually, by now, more victims are back on their feet, out of his motel.
    — Brianna Sacks, Washington Post, 28 Sep. 2023
  • The man had reportedly been squatting at the motel and other buildings in the area.
    — Emma Colton, Fox News, 8 Dec. 2023
  • On their first two trips out of town, Diane and Denzil shared a motel room but slept in separate beds.
    — Katie Engelhart, New York Times, 9 May 2023
  • According to police, the older man brought a young girl to Cantrell’s motel room in El Cajon.
    — Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Mar. 2023
  • Those in shelter, such as motel rooms, are still considered homeless by the city.
    — Dakota Smith, Los Angeles Times, 1 Mar. 2024

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