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

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

Even Beverly was silent, listening, while the janitor and the yellow bird sang to each other.

From "Raymie Nightingale" by Kate DiCamillo