How to Use motley crew in a Sentence

motley crew

noun
  • Half our motley crew of six still stared at our phones, though.
    — Christine Peterson, Outdoor Life, 7 Jan. 2026
  • Do you, like me, like to keep a motley crew of oils and vinegars on your counter?
    — Alaina Chou, Bon Appetit Magazine, 11 Feb. 2026
  • The cheeky youngster with an eyepatch and baseball cap trailed by a motley crew?
    — R. Daniel Foster, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
  • And soon, a determined and motley crew sets out to test Vahid’s hunch.
    — Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Our project is staffed by a motley crew of volunteers who have a wide variety of day jobs.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 28 Nov. 2021
  • Of course, the only thing your motley crew will actually be battling over is who gets the last piece of candy.
    — Kaitlin Stanford, Parents, 5 Oct. 2023
  • The motley crew of characters are based on characters Panahi met, both in the prison and outside.
    — Anne Thompson, IndieWire, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Sporting matching cycling jerseys, our peloton is a motley crew.
    — Katie Jackson, Travel + Leisure, 24 May 2025
  • The task force has its hands full, too, which finally gives us a bit more character development for our motley crew.
    — Grace Byron, Vulture, 22 Sep. 2025
  • The series brings together a motley crew of strangers forced to do community service.
    — Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 20 Sep. 2024
  • Players, a motley crew spanning generations, swarm the courts.
    — Ana Gutierrez, Austin American Statesman, 2 July 2025
  • Judging by the amusing premiere episode, there is some potential to the motley crew of this government service.
    — Kelly Lawler, USA Today, 11 Oct. 2025
  • Hosting a motley crew this Christmas, where half the party is Cali sober and the other half is more, ahem, old fashioned?
    — Mary-Frances Heck, Outside Online, 26 Nov. 2024
  • The motley crew endures a series of tasks in order to get home, teaming up with master crafter Steve (Black) along the way.
    — Patrick Ryan, USA Today, 4 Apr. 2025
  • Among the motley crew of party guests, an ensemble of theater regulars acquit themselves well.
    — Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 19 Mar. 2026
  • The next big bad in Jared Leto's motley crew of sinister screen villains has finally been announced.
    — Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 21 Dec. 2024
  • Meanwhile, a motley crew of sightseers becomes divided over how real this shipwreck holiday should be.
    — Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 15 July 2024
  • The motley crew attends a Knicks game and goes shopping in the Big Apple, naturally.
    — Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 31 July 2023
  • Each viewing reveals a deeper understanding and devotion to Lamb and his motley crew.
    — Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 13 June 2025
  • Prodigy follows a motley crew of young aliens who must figure out how to work together while navigating a greater galaxy, in search of a better future.
    — Denise Petski, Deadline, 20 June 2024
  • There’s less pressure on a motley crew of anthropomorphic misfits than, say, Superman, whose time in the sun lies just around the corner.
    — Alison Herman, Variety, 5 Dec. 2024
  • Last week was all about the emotional toll killing people, rescuing people, and discovering people killers has taken on our motley crew.
    — Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 26 Nov. 2025
  • Cooper is trying to keep the doors of Paradise Records open with its motley crew of entertaining employees, even as the world works against him.
    — Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 16 Apr. 2025
  • For a movie that was supposed to be about the end of the road for Marvel Studios’ deep-space motley crew, mid-credits and post-credits scenes were all about beginnings.
    — David Betancourt, Washington Post, 5 May 2023
  • In the underworld, Catrina assembles a motley crew of the dead for their annual pilgrimage.
    — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 3 July 2023
  • Shelley, Annette, Eddie, and the rest of this motley crew are simply doing their best, trying to make it through the harsh realities of their hard lives.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 7 Sep. 2024
  • Of course, the main event in any Agatha Christie thriller is the motley crew of suspects whose hidden motivations and connections eventually come to light.
    — Ann Hornaday, Washington Post, 11 Sep. 2023
  • The people who trap, neuter, and release them—a process known in the animal-rescue world as TNR—are a motley crew of passionate volunteers.
    — Seyward Darby, Longreads, 5 July 2023
  • Confined to the dingy basement, the motley crew doesn’t get much respect, but their dynamic is hilariously relatable for anyone just trying to make it through the day in a dead-end office job.
    — Kevin Jacobsen, EW.com, 27 Sep. 2024
  • The motley crew celebrates the arrival of 1971 toward the end of the film, lighting an M-80 firecracker in the kitchen.
    — Kate Stroup, Entertainment Weekly, 31 Dec. 2025

Some of these examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'motley crew.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback about these examples.

Last Updated: