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Meanings of motels in English
Motor hotel in which all rooms face directly onto a car park, or low-cost hotel.
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Examples for "motel"
Examples for "motel"
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.
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 motels in English
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.
6
They were investing in motels, rest homes, and a restaurant or two.
7
She chose her own clients, her own motels, her schedule, et cetera.
8
They also boosted spending on healthcare, and at restaurants, hotels and motels.
9
She said civil defence would help people into motels in Mosgiel where needed.
10
He said leaving people to stay in motels was not a long-term option.
11
With Massino a fugitive, Linda said she visited him in different Pennsylvania motels.
12
Again we were welcomed to wary motels by means of inscriptions that read:
13
Airbnb is similarly taking market share from hotels, motels and inns.
14
Then Caroline said, I thought all the motels and lodges had been canvassed.
15
It had a long, bright strip of shopping malls, motels and gas stations.
16
Tells how much he likes American coffee shops, hotels, and motels.
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Motels through the time
Motels across language varieties
New Zealand
Common
United States of America
Rare