Motel is an English word with synonyms like court. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Motel meaning
- A type of hotel or lodging establishment, often located near a major highway, which typically features a series of rooms whose entrances are immediately adjacent to a parking lot to facilitate convenient access to parked automobiles.
- A low-cost short-stay hotel, often with hourly rates rather than daily rates, and notorious for permitting illicit sexual activities; love hotel.
Synonyms of Motel
Using Motel
- The main meaning on this page is: A type of hotel or lodging establishment, often located near a major highway, which typically features a series of rooms whose entrances are immediately adjacent to a parking lot to facilitate convenient access to parked automobiles. | A low-cost short-stay hotel, often with hourly rates rather than daily rates, and notorious for permitting illicit sexual activities; love hotel.
- Useful related words include: motor hotel, motor inn, motor lodge, tourist court.
- In the example corpus, motel often appears in combinations such as: the motel, motel room, motel on.
Context around Motel
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.6 words
- Position in the sentence: 9 start, 9 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Motel
- In this selection, "motel" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 23.6 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, old, bates, cockroach, stereotypes, consists and located stand out and add context to how "motel" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include 13 unit motel with an and 2006 the motel made forays. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "motel" sits close to words such as attach, coffin and dwelling, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with motel
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
It is also the name of a motel chain in China (Motel 168). (13 words)
A wanted Cheyenne transient is behind bars after reportedly trespassing at a Cheyenne motel. (14 words)
As Butch is driving back to the motel, he happens to see Marsellus crossing the street. (16 words)
The couple made their way to Atlantic City, moving from motel to motel and desperate to find help, until they learned about Catholic Charities’ Atlantic City Employment and Assistance program, directed by Jeanetta Warren. (34 words)
By the 1990s, Motel 6 and Super 8 were built with inside corridors (so were nominally hotels) while other former motel brands (including Ramada and Holiday Inn) had become mid-price hotel chains. (33 words)
APS, like all public school systems, is federally required to count students living in a motel or hotel, moving frequently or living “doubled up” with relatives and friends as experiencing homelessness. (31 words)
Example sentences (20)
The cockroach motel and no-tell motel stereotypes continue with various motels in the series, including the Happy Earwig Motel and Worst Western.
The motel consists of a 13-unit motel with an additional 3-bedroom apartment, laundry facility and heated swimming pool.
The Houlton Band of Maliseet Indians breathed new life into the Stardust Motel, a nearly 50-year-old motel located on Route 1 in Houlton.
Afterward, prosecutors said, Washington hopped from motel-to-motel and robbed businesses including supermarkets and a Burger King while detectives pursued him in connection with Jay's killing.
Debbie stayed at the motel, and when John got back to the motel, Debbie was watching the news reports.
Elinor’s parents built the Wigwam Motel on Route 66. She was very proud of it and spent a lot of her life helping to run the motel.
The couple made their way to Atlantic City, moving from motel to motel and desperate to find help, until they learned about Catholic Charities’ Atlantic City Employment and Assistance program, directed by Jeanetta Warren.
Bates Motel series On January 13, 2012, A&E announced that a television series called Bates Motel was in development at the network.
By the 1990s, Motel 6 and Super 8 were built with inside corridors (so were nominally hotels) while other former motel brands (including Ramada and Holiday Inn) had become mid-price hotel chains.
In the film Sparkle Lite Motel (2006) and the TV miniseries The Lost Room (2006), the motel made forays into the realms of science fiction.
It is also the name of a motel chain in China (Motel 168).
Stephen C. Apostolof's Motel Confidential (1967) and the porn film Motel for Lovers (1970) were two notable early examples.
According to documents tendered to the court, police were patrolling Gilgandra when they saw a truck of interest stopped near Silver Oaks Motel.
After her mother’s death, Abby (Tuppence Middleton) inherits an old motel near where she grew up in the Clifton Hill neighborhood of Niagara Falls, Ontario.
A man police say was the victim’s roommate at the motel for at least a month was later charged in the killing.
A Phoenix secretary on the run (Janet Leigh) checks into a shady motel run by the mysterious Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins) and his overbearing mother.
APS, like all public school systems, is federally required to count students living in a motel or hotel, moving frequently or living “doubled up” with relatives and friends as experiencing homelessness.
As Butch is driving back to the motel, he happens to see Marsellus crossing the street.
A sign for the former White Sands Motel remains on South Las Vegas Boulevard on Friday, March 24, 2023, in Las Vegas.
A wanted Cheyenne transient is behind bars after reportedly trespassing at a Cheyenne motel.
Common combinations with motel
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the motel 40×
- motel room 21×
- motel on 16×
- motel in 16×
- motel and 14×
- in motel 13×
- at motel 12×
- motel where 7×
- to motel 6×
- motel rooms 6×