janitor

Example Sentences

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The company hires people for roles like janitor, maintenance worker and in other trades.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 22, 2026

“I’m crying,” said Nidia Perez, a grandmother and school janitor who caught the game in a plaza in Caracas.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 18, 2026

The son of parents who fled Sierra Leone's civil war in the 1990s, Tiafoe used to sleep on the floor at a plush Maryland tennis centre where his father was a janitor.

From BBC • Jan. 24, 2026

He got the janitor job in the mid-1970s, and a decade later he and his wife experimented in their kitchen to create the new snack.

From Los Angeles Times • May 30, 2025

“Nightingale. Nightingale. It’s in the janitor’s office. I went in there to see if the janitor would help Beverly fight the goblin, and then surprise! I found the book! Also, I let the bird go.”

From "Raymie Nightingale" by Kate DiCamillo