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Meanings of motel in anglès
Motor hotel in which all rooms face directly onto a car park, or low-cost hotel.
Synonyms
Examples for "motels"
Examples for "motels"
1
Others were arrested at motels, based on anonymous tips or pro-active surveillance.
2
They are staying at motels and Cressie is afraid of getting pregnant.
3
These capsule motels whose still-bright colors catch the eye from far away.
4
The pistachio motels with their neon incantations could hardly be more evocative.
5
They rode in a roomy, air-conditioned station wagon, stopped overnight at motels.
1
Did you hear there was a break-in down at the motor court?
2
Feeling like a criminal, I walked into the field behind the motor court.
3
The vacant lot and the abandoned motor court barely showed up on the screen.
4
Then came an old motor court, shuttered, maybe permanently abandoned.
5
I spent my first night on the road in a decaying DeFuniak Springs motor court.
1
At nine, there was a call from Dolores and Victor Abbott, at their motor lodge out on the Plunkettsburg Pike.
2
Later Ms Joseph - who was 28 at the time - dropped the boy's mother home and took the boy to a local motor lodge.
3
The former motor lodge has a touch of the bizarre here and there in the form of bamboo xylophones and artwork made from dead birds.
4
The motel, in Secaucus, New Jersey, was called the Cameo Motor Lodge.
5
Unfolding the paper, she made out the cracked bell of the Liberty Motor Lodge.
1
It's certainly no worse than an off-ramp motor inn, where someone else rules the roost.
2
She gazed at the motor inn across the street.
3
A Lewis Pass motor inn and cafe that failed to pay a migrant worker for three months' work has been ordered to pay almost $20,000.
4
He kept walking-towarda shuttle van for the Red Lion Motor Inn.
5
No one even picked up at Debbie's Paradise View Motor Inn.
1
One was an expensive but modern motor hotel some ten blocks away, comfortable but commercial.
2
Writer met the sen. at his suite at the Roger Smith Motor Hotel in White Plains.
3
This was another of those glorified motor hotels of the Gold Coast Strip, about two blocks from the Golden Horn.
4
In its heyday, Howard Johnson's was a hugely successful chain of motor hotels and restaurants, famous for its 28 flavours of ice cream.
Usage of motel in anglès
1
One night, on the way, the whole family shared a motel room.
2
They had managed the motel for over four years in the past.
3
They heard a motel room door open, and they heard it slam.
4
He came home early and walked over to the motel first thing.
5
Lew and I didn't talk on the way back to the motel.
6
Their motel has been taken over by pensioners -folksy tributes remain.
7
We stayed in a motel in Las Vegas just outside of town.
8
It was either that or rent a motel room by the week.
9
Another witness said he saw the shooter walking calmly though the motel.
10
He chose the place-Houseof Pies-justa few blocks from the motel.
11
With one last swallow for the road, Aaron left his motel room.
12
I'll meet you in the parking area behind the motel at seven-thirty.
13
We stayed in a motel and drove to Missouri the next day.
14
He began to lose business when a motel opened down the road.
15
He paid the bill, and we went back to our motel room.
16
The motel was on Route 206, not far from the turnpike entrance.
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Motel across language varieties
New Zealand
Common
United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
Rare