How to Use motel in a Sentence

motel

noun

• 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
• Their small motel room had thin walls and one bed; Jess slept on the floor.
  — Andrea Stanley, Washington Post, 27 Oct. 2021
• 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
• Hamm was sentenced to die for the 1987 murder of a motel clerk.
  — Tina Burnside, CNN, 29 Nov. 2021
• On the way to the motel, an officer saw the truck at Speedway.
  — cleveland, 21 Oct. 2021
• 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
• Need one more reason to put this motel on your to-do list?
  — Mia Taylor, Better Homes & Gardens, 21 Oct. 2021
• Full houses were renting for the same price as the motel room.
  — Lauren Peace, Orlando Sentinel, 30 Dec. 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
• Police said the suspect fled east from the motel on foot.
  — Taylor Pettaway, San Antonio Express-News, 29 Oct. 2021
• Miller then drove away from the motel, the affidavit states.
  — Tracy Neal, Arkansas Online, 18 Feb. 2022
• 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
• Miles had been in a fight that night with him and had left her motel room to spend the night with Reynolds in his motel room.
  — Christopher A. Combs, The Arizona Republic, 7 Jan. 2025
• 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
• Police made the grisly discovery near a trash bin at the back of the motel.
  — Sarah Nelson, The Courier-Journal, 6 Apr. 2022
• Police made the grisly discovery near a trash bin at the back of the motel.
  — Sarah Nelson, USA TODAY, 5 Apr. 2022
• Police made the grisly discovery near a trash bin at the back of the motel.
  — Sarah Nelson, The Indianapolis Star, 5 Apr. 2022
• 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
• Mike lived with his mom and stepdad in a local motel and moved often.
  — James Sturm, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2025
• The motel, which is owned by his father and his uncle, emigrants from London, is not far from where Naran grew up, in Echo Park.
  — Hannah Goldfield, The New Yorker, 24 Mar. 2025