Example sentences for: motley

How can you use “motley” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • As the name indicates, it’s lined with a motley collection of bars, restaurants, and nightspots.

  • Well, I am sorry you were much maligned by my friends on the Motley Fool, which was one of the first really successful online communities to take off.

  • In place of Munkàcsi's wonderfully motley and individuated agglomerations, party photographer Max Ehlert devised solid blocks of anonymous party-rally heads, or a whole sheet of stiff-arm saluters blurred into human coleslaw.

  • In one, the teen-age Stevens writes a dead-on Stevensian description of a motley village band--"the piping of flamboyant flutes, the wriggling of shrieking fifes with rasping dagger-voices, the sighing of bass-viols, drums that beat and rattle, the crescendo of cracked trombones."

  • I've been involved in a few spats with the Motley Fools over the years, writing stories that I thought were models of judicious balance, only to have all manner of insult hurled upon me, so I guess I'm particularly sensitized to the food-fight aspect of the Internet.


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