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

“Imogene just said he did. Nobody buried the snake. The janitor threw it in the trash masher. I saw him.”

From Literature

We should be able to leave the movie and not feel like we missed anything if we didn’t stay until the janitors started to sweep.

From Salon

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

From The Wall Street Journal

As cover, he worked as a janitor in a building where many American embassy officials lived—but apparently the KGB didn’t buy it.

From Literature