janitor

Example Sentences

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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

Charley finds direction when a neighborhood janitor invites him into a pickup game.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 14, 2025

Once freed from slavery, Washington toiled in coal mines, worked as a janitor in exchange for formal education and became a great American orator and leader of the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama.

From Salon • Oct. 27, 2025

Mulroney grew up in the U.K., the daughter of a factory worker and a janitor.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 4, 2025

I needed money for rent, so I got a job as a janitor for the engineering building.

From "Educated" by Tara Westover