janitor

Example Sentences

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“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

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

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 14, 2025

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

The janitor must have turned off the furnace, because there was no noise.

From "Bless Me, Ultima" by Rudolfo Anaya