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
• The fire crew, which received the call at 1:48 p.m., rushed to the scene and found heavy smoke coming from the motel’s first floor.
  — Hema Sivanandam, Mercury News, 19 May 2025
• 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
• Hernandez, who was 37, died on the floor of the south Fort Worth motel.
  — Emerson Clarridge, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 9 June 2025
• 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
• Debbie had arrived back at the motel the night before to find the room was a wreck.
  — Meg Kissinger, jsonline.com, 31 Aug. 2021
• 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
• The motel parking lots that line the town’s main artery were empty.
  — Sam Metz and Janie Har, Anchorage Daily News, 31 Aug. 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
• Cribbs was found with stab wounds in a motel room rented by Rogers.
  — Nicole Acosta, People.com, 16 May 2025
• Healey has pledged to close all hotels and motels serving as shelters by the end of the year.
  — Chris Van Buskirk, Boston Herald, 30 May 2025
• One of those in a motel is 45-year-old Rasheena McCord, a mother of four.
  — Jennifer Ludden, NPR, 26 Dec. 2024
• In his scuzzy motel rooms, Tell wraps every piece of furniture — the lamps, the desks, the bed — in white cloths.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 2 Sep. 2021
• 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
• After speaking with Whitney, police checked the hotels and motels in Wenatchee as well as the camping roster at the state park, and then the wider area.
  — Alaa Elassar, CNN Money, 8 June 2025
• This middle-of-nowhere motel has become a big draw for astrophotographers.
  — Julia Duin, Outside Online, 6 June 2025