How To Use Motel In A Sentence

The only evidence even remotely suggesting that Persians mummified their dead is from the fifth century B.C. Greek historian Herodotus, who wrote that Persians "embalmed" their dead in wax. Archive 2008-01-01
A leisurely breakfast - even the motel manager was moaning about the way the Italians "hogged" the muffins this morning and drank cups of milk instead of putting it on their bran flakes! TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com
Moreover, I can't think of any other 'minority' of which this is remotely true, unless it were to be the other minority from which I can claim descent: people of British or Anglophile provenance. Christopher Hitchens: Reinstate Rick Sanchez!
To our dismay, unknown to us there was a motel only three kilometres down the road.
The title remotely suggests that twitter had something to do with his death. TechCrunch

He was not remotely interested in conventional sightseeing or culture. Times, Sunday Times
Some hope, he thought; he'll be cuddled up in that motel on the Cambridge Road with you-know-who like he is every Saturday night. A WORM OF DOUBT
Next to the pretty basic motel where I stayed was a shop selling and renting electric wheelchairs, and there they were in their serried hundreds.
Few position players or pitchers maintain an even remotely uniform level of effectiveness.
Another night, another motel room, and now the guys have insisted on coed rooms.
The film begins by offering discontinuous glimpses of three unconnected characters, then flashes a preview of the climactic moment, when all three somehow come together in a bloody motel room.
Forensic evidence has shown that at least one of the bombs was detonated remotely via an untraceable prepaid mobile phone.
Unlike other temperature-measuring devices, the radiometer makes its measurements remotely.
A blind criminal delivering money to a gangster forces a motel owner to act as his eyes when he discovers the cash has been stolen. The Sun
It was not remotely greasy and any tendency towards blandness was countered by the saltiness of the feta, while the orange butter sauce saved the whole dish from becoming too dry.
They no longer have to trawl streets at random with their equipment to find vulnerable homes; they can now purchase software that can identify such households remotely. Times, Sunday Times
A key role in this warfare is assigned to remote minelaying and remotely controlled minefields.
So if the visible universe were the extent of physical reality, physical reality would not even remotely contain the resources required to factorize such a large number. The Simulation Argument and Christianity « Anglican Samizdat
They are also a classic comic pair in a production that's chockablock with vivid characters: Elizabeth Reaser as Buddy's wife, Beth; Collette Wolfe as Matt's wife, Sandra; Louisa Krause as a droll motel desk clerk. Nervy 'Young Adult' Dazzles by the Book
Yet the overall atmosphere of San Miguel is not remotely of a chichi American town, nor even is it as spruce as neighbouring colonial cities.
The majority of guerrilla attacks on US occupation forces have been carried out by remotely detonated bombs or rocket-propelled grenades.
We all ran and hid in this cheap motel's restaurant.
This includes luxury coach, motel accommodation, three breakfasts and dinners plus one lunch.
In emergency cases, nurses can advise staff remotely on how to treat patients before an ambulance arrives. Times, Sunday Times
The HRS-I system monitors people's health by capturing data - such as electrocardiograph signals and body surface temperature - and then wirelessly transmitting that data to a mobile phone or a PC where a health professional or family member can access it remotely. BBC News - Home
With the pop-culture machine currently devouring everything even remotely surf-related, it might at first seem odd that Hollywood hasn't started nosing around Newport Beach.
They should make that moral choice that they will not do anything which might be remotely conceived as supporting the regime.
"One motelier had their website translated into Chinese at a significant cost, but reports it paid for itself within 48 hours," he says.
That's not to say it's a bad idea, since the movie never ever pretends to have anything remotely to do with real life.
Hell, viruses could replicate all the livelong day inside the run-down motel that is my body as long as they didn't produce any symptoms.
But there's nothing remotely scandalous about this reality-based movie.
Baley interviews anyone remotely connected to anyone else and undercovers much political tention between Fastolfe and the head of the Auroran Robotics Institute, Dr. Amadiro. Archive 2010-04-01
In May 1994 she was charged with drugs possession after being arrested in a Miami motel.
The only nearby food would be snacks in the Pemex, but I think that'd be pretty much the case with any of the other motels along that stretch, too. Mazatlan hotel near cuota going north
Was anybody's high school experience even remotely close to that?
AnalyzeYou Inc. The system collects and remotely analyses long term ECG recordings by using a novel algorithm, which helps cardiologist to early identify signs of heart problems. WN.com - Articles related to New mobile banking: Obopay allows you to convert cash into phone-money
Gretchen-One split the seconds into a thousand pieces releasing seconds as Einstein split the atom astonishing energy, unfathomable energy she destroyed that day remotely it lay in the distant timeline, she found it destroyed it with atomics with the atomic seconds thus saved mankind forever thus saved what remained of mankind a dry skeleton in an underground bunker deep in the heart of old egypt Three gretchens
But these seaside souvenirs fail the first test of the saucy postcard... because they're not remotely funny. Times, Sunday Times
Her main preoccupation was to get away from Baltimore, and she snapped up the first remotely eligible husband who came her way. King Edward VIII - The Official Biography
Did you really think that you'd surprise the moteliers?
Lots of short sentences and interesting punctuation in lieu of actually having anything remotely engaging to say.
Late that night we pulled into a cheap motel, cashed an unemployment check, and fell peacefully to sleep.
You're looking at beachwear, I'm looking at some shirts and we're not even remotely thinking about jeans.
His abhorrence of racism led him to write The Algiers Motel Incident.
Barely a negative vibe will be emitted from any of the bidding nations, nor a single quote uttered which might seem remotely downbeat or pessimistic.
Suddenly, from somewhere within the motel, a bell rang out clear and strong.
They would pick us up at our motel to drive us to the first station of the day for an interview in an on-air acoustic performance.
Now, I would suggest to you that you re-read the dictionary definition of a "deist", and then tell me that you, if you can, as a thinking person, tell me that the description of the incident in Washington's letter even remotely resembles any "indifference" on the part of God. Texas Faith: How did our civil debate become so uncivil? | RELIGION Blog | dallasnews.com
What a total travesty of anything remotely resembling justice. The Sun
If you've ever asked yourself who stays in ratty motels off the highway next to malls, with Walmarts as the high shopping, here is the answer.
Users can access their voice mail remotely.
Parents, music lovers and the curious wander in and find a seat amongst a mishmash of antique chairs, an old couch and anything else that remotely resembles a place to rest.
Scrambling turned to roped up exploration as the frustrating hunt for anything remotely matching the guidebook description ensued.
Business travel will continue to grow, and increased domestic and foreign tourism will also create demand for additional hotels and motels.
The church is remotely situated on the north coast of the island.
Neither seems remotely interested in the characters they invent as anything more than reflections of authorial narcissism.
These accuracies met the USGS minimum requirement of 85% for land-use and land-cover classification of remotely sensed data.
The ravenous creatures themselves are perhaps the film's only remotely redeeming feature.
There's no town here, just a cluster of shops, cabins and motels at the side of the highway.
It has been proved experimentally that this system can be used for remotely real-time monitor of assemble line racks, cables and industry frequency interference of communication circuit.
None of the current crop of leaders looks remotely interested in that vacancy. Times, Sunday Times
Voters were not remotely interested in the question. Times, Sunday Times
While such motels inevitably look rinky-dink, the Rest-Eaze looked even rinky-dinkier, like it was made from Tinkertoys and Lincoln Logs. Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine
No one remotely interested in books should miss it. Times, Sunday Times
The bomb was believed to have been planted in a minibus parked outside the walled embassy compound and detonated remotely.
He never caused a scintilla of trouble at any of the dog-friendly hotels and motels we visited.
We stopped at the main desk of the dingy motel, one my mother would not have been happy with, and waited while Jimmy registered and checked us in.
Sherman's behavior and verbiage was succinct and efficient but it wasn't even remotely "thuggish."
The Japanese never built any aircraft remotely answering to this description.
This would also allow the unit to be controlled remotely across a network keeping the cabling to a minimum.
The film industry still does not come close to using remotely authentic-looking horse tack and, for the most part, never did.
No other country at that time had an organized public opinion remotely comparable to Britain's.
At no point in my life so far have I or anyone in my family ever been rich, or even remotely comfortable financially.
Anyone who thinks these people play anything remotely original needs to bone up on their musicology.
It is natural to conclude, therefore, that they have some hidden property which saves them from attack; and it is easy to see that when any other insects, by what we call accidental variation, come more or less remotely to resemble them, the latter will share to some extent in their immunity. Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection A Series of Essays
Pullman, Mercure, Novotel, Suitehotel, Ibis, all seasons, Motel 6, and Adagio city aparthotel, has signed a three year framework agreement with Aastra for the supply of telephone systems and services to the hotel chain on a worldwide basis, except for Etap Hotel and Hotel F1. ITP.net - Front Page
It was a moderately sized motel, reasonably furnished and decorated.
They were connected to the timing device of a compact disc player designed to detonate them remotely.
One Word, Fanboys, they have compiled a list containing every comic book movie even remotely considered good, batman begins, 300, vfor vendetta, x-men and The dark knight is understandable, they should by all means be in a great movies list but spider-man and superman returns, come on. Empire Magazine’s 500 Greatest Movies Of All Time | /Film
The motel was a pretty place, but it wasn't top-class.
The church is remotely situated on the north coast of the island.
Hotels, motels and entertainment theme parks have a unique security problem.
But typically the dictatorial F1 supremo doesn't see this setback as remotely his Waterloo!
The town's lust for lucre has prompted other ploys, including attempts to impose a hotel-motel tax on a Northwestern conference center and a tuition tax.
It doesn't help that there's no one on the show that a viewer can remotely care about.
Contact motels and hotels in communities outside of your area and find out if they will accept pets in an emergency.
Or a fool, perhaps, for all her sonneting, for there are men who relish a weak headpiece as the chiefest ornament of women, especially when its indeterminate vagaries boast an escape-valve remotely connected with the fine arts. Judith of the Plains
It was incredible, and until today she'd never experienced anything remotely like it.
The utility model has small size, higher precision, easy scale division refining and convenience for measured result to remotely transmit.
So here we have a young boy who is not remotely crazy but who none the less suffered greatly in an environment that prevented him from being the person he was.
For example, my earlier use of the word waldo would, for many, tell them that this is some kind of remotely controlled technology that mirrors the body or its functions in some way. Nay to the Naysayers: Avatar, Credit, and Intertextuality
I think it's also worth mentioning the somewhat blind crusade for copyleft that Cory is on, where anything that remotely smacks of Big Corporate Copyright is slapped down.
Because these vehicles can be operated remotely, they help minimize the threat to the warfighter in high-risk areas.
There are several knick-knack stores, a few jewelers, restaurants and motels. We Will Elevate (Part One)
The essay isn't even remotely relevant to the topic.
The grandeur of the fights escalates steadily until, in the movie's final sequence, the Big Bad attacks Zen with wave after wave of apparently limitless henchmen in a blood-soaked battle that moves from a restaurant to a training hall to the facade of a seedy motel, which gives plenty of opportunity for bone-crunching multistory plummets. Archive 2009-07-01
Remotely-sensed data are most useful when combined with other sources of information such as topographic soils or geological maps. Chapter 6
It shows how so few people have anything remotely interesting or controversial to say these days.. The Sun
Although it's common for pro athletes to be miked during games, networks are careful to use only taped audio and then are extra careful about avoiding airing anything that might end up being remotely controversial. Sports on TV: NBC's Ebersol loves his NFL talent roster
Are we as a bipartizan society to be forever prohibited from declaring someone from the other party’s actions to be wrong if ANYONE from our own party EVER did ANYTHING remotely similar? Gaaaaaah: An Open Thread « Whatever
Not remotely a follower of high street trends; more likely to be found in vintage shops. Times, Sunday Times
The Japanese never built any aircraft remotely answering to this description.
She did not like for any of the elves or faeries to come close to revealing her secret, even remotely close.
With the best will in the world, no one in the audience seems remotely interested in the sound balance.
Edie Falco plays Marly, a hard-drinking late-thirtysomething woman, working at her dad's motel and diner, hassled by her good-for-nothing ex-husband and pining for a way out of there.
The result is that there is no remotely authoritative guidance on how we should live within society.
* Sam Stein patiently explains why AFSCME's big spending in the elections is not remotely comparable to that of non-disclosing conservative groups. Happy Hour Roundup
And that's not because I think it was remotely representative of people on benefits. Times, Sunday Times
None of the characters is remotely believable. Times, Sunday Times
Views into the three numbered motel rooms through lensed eyeholes presented a similar mix of persistence and decay, presence and abandonment.
One can agree that LGT will likely not interfere with a robust phylogeny for primates that indeed recreates ancient splittings of their populations, without buying in to the notion that the supposed sisterhood of Thermotogales and Aquificales [two bacterial phyla — OT] revealed by a small subset of their shared ribosomal protein genes reflects an even remotely similar evolutionary process. A Disclaimer for Behe?
Grandbois: The last time I heard anything remotely flattering about Buckwaldo Mudthumper I was three feet deep in viscous sewage that had found its way into my garden apartment at the behest of one Mr. Juan Mandible Sick-Eyes and his uncompromising hoses. Daniel Grandbois' Lucky Unlucky Lucky Days
I thought that's why they'd tricked me into going to the motel," she continued on autopilot. BETRAYED
Bowden is a blood-and-guts journalist with a poet's sensibility, a noirish naturalist, a ferociously inquisitive witness to life's glory and horror torn between the desire to embrace the world and the need to hole up in a drapes-drawn motel room. Some of the Dead Are Still Breathing by Charles Bowden: Book summary
They are tittle-tattle, nothing remotely important.
The sign outside the motel said "No Vacancies".
The remotely operated mine disposal vehicle launch and recovery area is on the afterdeck which is equipped with two cranes.
It is noticeable across the widest expanse of office floor, and not in a remotely endearing way. Times, Sunday Times
Never anything remotely close to condescending or evil, The Reader nevertheless suffers chiefly from a distasteful thematic overemphasis, though not far behind is the film's rather insistent self-flattery. Review Catch-Up: Doubt, Slumdog Millionaire, Defiance, The Wrestler, The Reader
His ire was reserved for the exaggerated and superficial aspects of American style, such as neon-lit motels, drive-ins, cars with fins, and stove-pipe trousers.
He is accused of conspiring with others to create a remotely controlled network of computers, known as a botnet. Times, Sunday Times
Interior hallways run nearly the length of a city block, and could have resembled an endless, generic motel corridor.
We defensively sanitize and desexualize ourselves and our children in order to reassure ourselves and others that we are free of any desires even remotely connected to childhood sexuality.
Parking spaces are being fitted with wireless smart sensors that detect vehicles that have exceeded their time limit and alert attendants remotely. Times, Sunday Times
Anything remotely religious or somehow well-intentioned can be properly assigned to the pastor. Christianity Today
The story itself is interesting, but the part that stuck out was this gadget, called a "raskat" device, which comes with a wireless keychain fob that can remotely trigger the destruction of data on a computer hard drive. Boing Boing
`motel' is a portmanteau word made by combining `motor' and `hotel'
One way is to travel to the planets, either with remotely operated probes or with manned spacecraft.
He is, he says, not remotely put off by the ease with which a scratch side with ‘no gameplan and a smattering of hangovers’ dismantled Scotland on Thursday night.
There is nothing even remotely amusing about the situation.
A surrogate is a remotely controlled android, that's the personification of vanity, and acts as both a reflection of the user's ego and aspirations. Getting Graphic: "The Surrogates" by Robert Vendetti & Brett Weldele
A thief took two cotton towels, two hand towels and an ashtray from a Motel 6 in the 100 block of Airport Freeway on Monday. Archive 2007-01-28
I drove the car under an arch leading to another wing of the motel and parked in front of my own room.
Some military strategists already think that the job the F-35 is meant to do can be better handled by cruise missiles and remotely piloted drones.
Synopsis: An anthropologist is stranded on a small Pacific island whose only inhabitant is a mechanical mining machine that is remotely controlled by Annie, a 12 year old autistic girl who is using the machine as a form of therapy. REVIEW: The Year's Best Science Fiction #22 edited by Gardner Dozois
One of my policies is to avoid motels where you need to communicate with the clerk through a slot in dingy bulletproof glass. Motel Paradiso
There are no redeeming qualities to the surviving characters, nor is there anything remotely interesting about the storyline.
It could apply to hotel and motel owners, cruise ship operators, stadium owners, landlords, real estate managers, and event promoters.
Furthermore, the type of eldercare generally needed includes hands-on tasks such as providing transportation and going shopping rather than assisting with financial needs that might be more readily handled remotely.
We have manufactured products for catalog companies and large orders for motels.
According to Rosene, agricultural employees harassed him by following him, bugging his phone, and laying a trail of heptachlor between his motel room and car.
Several of the ‘translations’ do not have even remotely similar analogues in the Lorca catalogue.
Protesters claim problems started after the motel business closed.
The apparatus was operated remotely in a vacuum and in a temperature-controlled chamber.
We know nothing of course, but we do not remotely know even this, and mere assertion in no way ameliorates our destitution.
Views into the three numbered motel rooms through lensed eyeholes presented a similar mix of persistence and decay, presence and abandonment.
And so it was with me during my "work-cation," when I spent the dog days thinking about how to make better virtual meetings -- the kind of meetings many employees experience when they're working remotely or enjoying a holiday. How To Make Virtual Meetings Better
In every corny soap opera or sappy movie, the main characters find themselves shacked up in some seedy motel.
There's no town here, just a cluster of shops[Sentencedict], cabins and motels at the side of the highway.
Singer as writer is not a remotely new concept. Times, Sunday Times
Of course, there were plenty who weren't remotely coy about it: either hoping to try their hand in the saturnalian lucky dip, or already engaged in a mutually knowing conspiracy of flirting, footsie and ward-round eye contact since mid-November. Boiling a Frog
With every hotel and motel booked out for the weekend, around 500 Townsville households have offered to billet out of town visitors to the game.
None of these people could remotely be described as liberals, meaning that the Republican Party and conservative America is itself split on the question.
L&D of PS is a must for anyone who is even remotely a Sellers fan. Archive 2005-06-01
She is still mooning about in that motel room, but she does that you know.
This course provides an introduction to the use of remotely sensed data in geographical/environmental research.
This lawn belonged to my paternal grandmother, whom I cautiously called Mammaw, for she resented being called anything that remotely betrayed her caducity.
Are you sure you haven't seen anything even remotely suspicious?
None of these claims was remotely meritorious.
Perhaps I should turn up late, reeking of red wine and motel sheets, with lipstick on my collar and my flies down.
They are heavier, less wieldy and, in spite of the ads, only remotely car-like in their driving characteristics.
Edie Falco plays Marly, a hard-drinking late-thirtysomething woman, working at her dad's motel and diner, hassled by her good-for-nothing ex-husband and pining for a way out of there.
She had excellent health herself and was not remotely interested in being a health researcher or journalist.
“You expect that every man pays you the least attention or treats you remotely decently is going to be your Prince Charming.” Sunday Scribblings – Happy Endings
I wish that I had accepted your suggestion to substitute in my script an explanatory phrase for the neologism "preprepared," and if it had crossed your minds or had dawned on mine that the word could be thought of as implying that I had reflected even remotely on the character of Bernard Knox, I should have written instead what I now hasten to send to you. Crusty Christopher
And the only place it feels remotely autumnal is in the mall. Down South, It's A Sleeveless Autumn
She looked at the flame-red Mercedes parked before the door of her motel room. THE AMBASSADOR'S WOMEN
It is no longer remotely funny, incisive or sharp. Times, Sunday Times
The only nearby food would be snacks in the Pemex, but I think that'd be pretty much the case with any of the other motels along that stretch, too. Mazatlan hotel near cuota going north
Under normal circumstances, it would not remotely be a sackable offence or a resignation issue. Times, Sunday Times
The very idea that the government would want to treat access to bandwidth as even remotely analogous to access to highways has latter-day asphalt manufacturers in a tizzy.
And part of that story is the optimism that the human brain is not even remotely close to its limits on capacity.
Boeing has made one such system and used it to steer military aircraft remotely.
After stashing my stuff into my room, we went back to the Motel and had dinner at the Motel Resturant.
The small motel room echoed with her moans of satisfaction and his sighs of pleasuring her.
“You expect that every manpays you the least attentionor treats youremotely decently is going to be your Prince Charming.” 2008 June « Becca’s Byline
The IG's finding means that the EPA is "finally shutting down an experiment that was based on shoddy science," said Jim Hecker, a lawyer at Public Justice, a public-interest law firm whose criticism dissuaded the EPA from using the shortcut at an abandoned motel in Fort Worth, Texas, in 2004. The Center for Public Integrity: EPA allowed unsafe handling of asbestos, IG says
Sometimes, sonorities more remotely related to the tropos are incorporated to produce a sense of harmonic instability and cadential delay.
Economic growth did not remotely interest him. Times, Sunday Times
The action opens with Vince drinking and drugging his way through an evening in a drab Michigan motel room.
If not treated, the skunk stink stuck to a dog cannot only end a hunt but can also lose you your place in a motel room and can cause real problems back home for a housedog or even a dog that lives outside in a kennel. Undefined
The minehunters are equipped with two Pluto remotely operated mine disposal vehicles supplied by Gaymarine in Turate, Italy and by Gayrobot in Balerna, Switzerland.
Was your father remotely camp in any way? Times, Sunday Times
Using the latest medical conferencing solutions from MultiSense Communications - www. multisense.co.uk - based on Polycom equipment - surgeons from different disciplines, including bladder cancer and transplant surgery, have been able to view images transmitted at high bandwidth and high frame rates, allowing a diagnosis to be made remotely and without compromise. Press Releases
It's called the warlock system, which would have detected or set off anything with a wireless signal that would set off that bomb, so they believe this bomb was actually wired probably underground and detonated remotely through that wire instead of wirelessly. CNN Transcript Jan 30, 2006
You are the only person that finds yourself remotely interesting. The Sun
Ally Bennett had ordered him to return to the motel and he was too weak and afraid to disobey. TIES THAT BIND
Over breakfast at my motel, I fell into conversation with the owner of a hardware shop.
A year and a half ago, they were part of a 10-day vigil outside the base in Indian Springs, Nev. (about 35 miles from Las Vegas), protesting the Predator and Reaper drone flights over Afghanistan and Pakistan that are remotely piloted from the base. Robert Koehler: Drone Warfare on Trial
If we could manipulate organic matter and that seems to be the direction we are headed as they can, then we could by having sample of their rna/dna, create a new type of "rover" that remotely resembles the life form of that planet, with all the built in codes to avoid capture, take samples, and even remodify themselves to adapt. Posthuman Blues
Moreover, in social terms he has had to bear a burden the others could not even remotely contemplate having to carry.
She found that most of them had been expurgated to remove anything that was remotely controversial, in some cases making the author's intention unrecognizable.
This is a wonderful wine - honeyed and rich without being remotely cloying.
In addition, the transmission circuit of small signal is designed to suit the signal to transmit and control remotely.
Whitechapel is going to have to pull off some kind of masterstroke next week to wrap this one up in any way that's remotely convincing. TV review: Whitechapel, Horizon and A History of Horror With Mark Gatiss
Today, of course, speech is no longer theologized in the same way, since it has become the domain of linguistics; but powerful evidence via Chomsky and others that grammar may be inborn lends support to the notion that the human capacity for language is not shared, even remotely, by any other living form. Knotted Tongues
The technology at the heart of this trend is called geolocation; and with a GPS-enabled smartphone such as the Apple iPhone, Google Nexus One, or RIM BlackBerry, you can use it to let your friends know where you are, or to find places recommended by people you know, or to check in remotely at clubs, bars, and restaurants. Entrepreneur.com: Latest Articles
In fact, there is nothing even remotely resembling a new sound, riff or beat.
He's not anything remotely to do with the business. The Sun
There is no other player even remotely approaching her calibre.

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