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

The former school janitor who had also served in the RAF had given up bowling himself, but continued to attend the club on a social basis following the death of his long-term partner.

From BBC • Feb. 19, 2025

I look behind the janitor and see a narrow metal door built into the wall.

From "Shine!" by J.J. and Chris Grabenstein