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

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

“What would bring him to that point. I thought, ‘What if he was a janitor when he was younger, and someone noticed and trained him?’

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 18, 2025

The janitor did a more complicated whistle, and the bird answered him with a song of his own.

From "Raymie Nightingale" by Kate DiCamillo