How to Use janitor in a Sentence

janitor

noun
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  • Kids in her class thought maybe a janitor dropped a trash can or somebody dropped a chair or a desk.
    — Hartford Courant, 7 Sep. 2022
  • This donation is the sum of 136 hours of his labor in the prison working as a porter/janitor.
    — Maham Javaid, Washington Post, 3 Mar. 2024
  • Demings is the daughter of a maid and a janitor, and Rubio is the son of Cuban immigrants.
    — Skyler Swisher, Orlando Sentinel, 8 Nov. 2022
  • The classroom was breached at 12:50 p.m. using keys from a janitor.
    — Marlene Lenthang, NBC News, 1 June 2022
  • Not just any janitor, but the janitor at my high school.
    — How To Save A Country, The New Republic, 22 June 2023
  • Below, a janitor named Jakob Schmid spotted the leaflets.
    — Jud Newborn, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Feb. 2023
  • Even as a janitor, Rodriguez would prefer to work full time.
    — Shirley Leung, BostonGlobe.com, 11 July 2022
  • Law enforcement breached the classroom door at 12:50 p.m., using keys from a janitor, and shot and killed the suspect.
    — Elizabeth Joseph, CNN, 9 June 2022
  • Cary was working as a janitor and staying in Yosemite's Cedar Lodge, the same motel the trio was residing in.
    — Skyler Caruso, PEOPLE.com, 22 Apr. 2022
  • The daughter of a maid and janitor, Demings, 65, grew up in a two-room home in Jacksonville with six older siblings.
    — Skyler Swisher, Orlando Sentinel, 27 Oct. 2022
  • On Christmas morning, Withey and the others were able to use snow blowers from the janitor’s closet to free their cars from the mounds of snow.
    — Sharif Paget, CNN, 30 Dec. 2022
  • The group ignored the command and, using a janitor's key, entered the room and engaged Ramos, shooting and killing the 18-year-old gunman.
    — Dan Carson, Chron, 3 June 2022
  • Police breach the door using keys obtained from the janitor because both doors are locked.
    — Taylor Pettaway, San Antonio Express-News, 27 May 2022
  • One renter fell behind $7,650, after his hours as a janitor were cut due to the pandemic.
    — Los Angeles Times, 28 Oct. 2022
  • The biggest news on the studio side this week was the announcement that about 50 janitors have been laid off since the work stoppage began on May 2.
    — Vulture, 20 June 2023
  • The next day, Christmas morning, Withey and the others were able to use snow blowers from the janitor’s closet to free their cars from mounds of snow.
    — Zenebou Sylla, CNN, 16 Jan. 2023
  • Tetiana, a former janitor, does not want to burden her children, who live near Kyiv.
    — Serhii Korolchuk, Washington Post, 28 Oct. 2023
  • His father was a janitor with a third-grade education, and his mother took in laundry and made it to the 10th grade.
    — Harrison Smith, Washington Post, 29 Nov. 2023
  • Noodles, who can share stories about his time as a school janitor during the band’s early days.
    — Laura Kiniry, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Jan. 2023
  • As far as the janitor’s question, to me there’s something innocent about the exchange.
    — Oliver Munday, The Atlantic, 29 July 2022
  • Hers included two brothers and a mother who worked a night shift as a janitor.
    — Steve Lopezcolumnist, Los Angeles Times, 11 June 2022
  • The fact that his dad — a former principal in Mexico — can be no more than a janitor in the Valley in the United States.
    — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 12 Apr. 2023
  • His character is a janitor and general roustabout, angling for a spot in the show.
    — Alexis Soloski Seth Caplan, New York Times, 25 Nov. 2022
  • Still, if a banker is better able to cope with a daily $4 toll than a janitor, there’s a simple remedy.
    — Kara Miller, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Sep. 2022
  • Neidert loves to talk about the time the police hid her in a janitor’s closet to get her away from an angry mob at the University of North Texas.
    — Will Carless, USA Today, 31 Dec. 2022
  • When this happens, everyone at the company—from the janitor, to the receptionist, to the CEO—gets shares.
    — Bill Keen, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2023
  • The incident at the school took place in April 2022, and the case went to trial late last year; the student and the janitor were identified only by their initials in the court ruling.
    — Elisabetta Povoledo, New York Times, 14 July 2023
  • The clip opens with Elordi, playing a janitor named Sergei, cleaning the hallways of 30 Rock after sharing that his car broke down.
    — Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 22 Jan. 2024
  • Sure, as long as it’s loaded up with battering 808s and sounds like it was recorded in a janitor’s closet.
    — Alphonse Pierre, Pitchfork, 19 Dec. 2023
  • Morena Guadalupe de Sandoval rushed over when her son called to say police officers had pulled him off a bus home from his janitor job in the city.
    — New York Times, 12 May 2022

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