Word Finder - motel

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A type of hotel or lodging establishment, often located near a major highway, which typically features a series of rooms the entrances of which are immediately adjacent to a parking lot to facilitate convenient access to automobiles parked there.

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A low-cost short-stay hotel, often with hourly rates rather than daily rates, and notorious for permitting illicit sexual activities; love hotel.

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To stay in a motel or motels.

He picked out a motel room key.

We splurged for a motel room in Peabody, a few miles from the LeBlanc's home.

We were surprised to learn he was staying in a motel and not with his mother's present husband.

In his right hand he clutched the motel key.

Cautiously, I stepped outside the motel room door, closing it behind me.

See if there's a motel or something.

The motel records confirmed these trips.

Our motel was at least five or six miles up the coast highway through town.

After turning the knob once to confirm it was locked, he paused, somewhat unsteadily, and glanced across the motel parking lot.

The room had a musty closed-up smell and looked like a thousand other motel rooms in a thousand other cities.

I was all set to have a few more at the motel and a big dinner but he begged off—just dropped me at my place.

He slipped the motel key in the left shoe and then rolled each sock, pushing it into its corresponding shoe.

When he came back to the motel in the morning to drop them off, I told him how I'd found them.

He returned to motel in mid-evening, in a car lent to him by the accommodating authorities.

You didn't mention anything about the Whitney Motel in the report.

I want you to give me your motel room key and go stay with Fred.

The Quincys are off somewhere and Franny and Donald took Donnie to a motel.

Hunter and Dean exchanged information during the short drive to the Ocean Shore Motel.

He said he saw our car at Whitney's Motel.

Dean turned the car away from town, opened the window to let in the fresh May night, and headed south toward route 309 and Whitney's Motel.

I've been up to the Whitney Motel.

Vinnie Baratto came out of the motel, suitcase in hand, a smile from ear to ear.

I want to stay at The Ocean Shore Motel.

There was the Whitney Motel back in Parkside.

They weren't in the motel room inventory.

The two men gave Winston a half-hour alone with Baratto before returning to the motel.

Too many people know he's here at the motel.

Your dad, or whoever was in his car, was alone at that motel.

According to Byrne's expense account he was in Scranton for two days just before he shacked up at the Whitney Motel!

He didn't shack up at the Whitney Motel.

Then you drove your bike, in his car, back to the motel.

This motel is a disaster in that regard.

Tell him I clucked my way back to the motel and the fireplace—if you see the bastard before he kills himself!

A red neon sign blinked "Ocean Shore Motel," painting the parking lot and the bathing-suited man in a pulsating crimson glow.

The motel was past its prime certainly, but had not yet descended to seedy.

Sackler made Dean wait until his son finished Little League practice before he would leave for the motel.

The two detectives agreed to keep Baratto at the motel until Monday as neither wanted to waste their weekend checking out his dubious story.

Leland Anderson wanted Dean to spend Sunday with Vinnie at the motel.

At first he lay awake, conscious of every sound the motel uttered, fearful that Cynthia Byrne might waken to God knows what thoughts and fears.

He wasn't in the mood to discuss Friday night in the Ocean Shore Motel with any­one.

I was all set to have a few more at the motel and a big dinner but he begged off—just dropped me at my place.

We've done a damned good job covering our tracks—painting the Scranton Apartment, swip­ing motel receipts with Byrne's signature on them....

Byrne didn't know what to do with me so he rented me a motel room—I didn't have any money with me 'cause I was supposed to stay with my wife.

Luckily the motel manager was with me, and he ' gently ' explained what a pink gin was.

After finding a motel and eating lunch I circle the one-way streets of little downtown Astoria until I find parking at the library.

Concentrate on doing we desire our wowed the motel the moral dilemma.

I did a crash course on running a motel and became the Night Manager.

We then checked into the scenic Rwenzori Guest House, like a small motel with family style dining.

We quickly crossed the street to the old motel where I already had a room.

No-one is speaking, but there's already enough heat in the seedy motel 's atmosphere to fry a rattle snake or two.