“We had stayed at a motel only once before, during the summer of 1967, when we traveled to Wisconsin for a three-day vacation at Lake Geneva.”

“Having robbed her boss's safe in order to get married, she holes up overnight at the sinister Bates motel.”

“At a motel room rager, fun reaches its legal limit and the girls are arrested and taken to jail.”

“We see that right now there are reports from moteliers that they cannot find cleaners.”

“He said moteliers weren't in a position to lower prices and give better deals because their margins wouldn't allow it.”

“These tenacious moteliers, noted for turning rundown properties into successful ventures, would have somehow managed to find room to accommodate two more people!”

“There's nothing better than eating at small, greasy roadside diners and sleeping in fleabag motels to let you know you are still alive.”

“After Brazil's economic crisis shifted buying power into reverse, some couples relocated their love nests from pricey motels to parking garages.”

“A check of directories shows 37 hotels and motels within a three-mile radius of Florence and LaSalle.”