How to Use custodial in a Sentence

custodial

adjective
  • Her mother is the custodial parent.
  • And custodial staff can use the extra day to disinfect buildings.
    The Salt Lake Tribune, 9 Aug. 2020
  • There was also one almost equally large burst of particles at 8 o’clock in the evenings—when the custodial crew came around to clean.
    Megan Molteni, Wired, 19 Aug. 2020
  • There were no students in the building, but the principal, office staff, teachers and custodial staff left safely.
    Robin Goist, cleveland, 25 Aug. 2020
  • Classrooms and common areas will also be sanitized by custodial staff.
    Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 17 Aug. 2020
  • Additional nurses and custodial workers will also be hired for schools, Vitti said.
    Emma Dale, Detroit Free Press, 31 July 2020
  • The custodial staff is a ghost crew, so the schools are dirty.
    Christopher Weber, Fortune, 21 Mar. 2023
  • When the custodial staff is out sick and there’s no way to keep the school clean, the schools close.
    Michelle Ruiz, Vogue, 4 Mar. 2021
  • The custodial account must be in place for at least three years.
    Jeff Lazerson, Orange County Register, 29 Aug. 2024
  • At one of the high schools, just five of 14 custodial positions are filled, says Dr. Price.
    Henry Gass, The Christian Science Monitor, 25 Mar. 2022
  • Mary Barr Clay fought for women to have equal property and custodial rights, but at the heart of it all was the vote.
    Sarah Ladd, The Courier-Journal, 1 Sep. 2020
  • However, if the child is younger than 18, an adult will have to open what is known as a custodial IRA.
    Anchorage Daily News, 25 July 2021
  • Your custodial days are not for you, but for your children.
    Amy Dickinson, Washington Post, 24 Jan. 2024
  • The phrase is a nod to the ownership of private keys, which are like a password for non-custodial crypto wallets.
    Taylor Locke, Fortune, 30 Nov. 2022
  • None of the money went to the custodial parents entitled to child support.
    Bruce Vielmetti, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 25 May 2022
  • The custodial staff found her body in a women’s bathroom on the second floor that afternoon.
    Christopher Williams, Sun Journal (lewiston, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Jan. 2022
  • Why didn’t the same lawyers who shook with fury in the face of custodial abuse harness the same energy to oppose the wars that created a pretext for it?
    Stephen Pomper, Foreign Affairs, 21 Sep. 2021
  • If there are a lot of gains in the custodial account, though, parents would be smart to get a tax pro’s advice before making this move.
    Liz Weston, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Mar. 2024
  • Then your children age out, and you are left as a custodial parent to raise these children that both parents love.
    Christopher Keating, Hartford Courant, 12 Mar. 2024
  • The child’s non-custodial mother is in custody and charges are pending, police said.
    Christine Condon, Baltimore Sun, 15 June 2022
  • The photos taken of the custodial staff in the hours after the Capitol came under siege are some of the most powerful images from that day.
    Washington Post, 16 Jan. 2021
  • Tony Dewright Payne, 28, was found lying in the middle of a street April 11, according to a custodial death report.
    Dana Branham, Dallas News, 6 Dec. 2020
  • And hours later, the brown and Black custodial staff who work there every day and keep the beautiful building running cleaned it all up.
    Chris Cillizza, CNN, 6 Jan. 2022
  • In the first year of the pandemic, many schools assigned custodial staff to wipe down surfaces frequently throughout the day.
    Kaiser Health News, oregonlive, 14 June 2022
  • There are 12 women's prisons in the UK and there are now more women serving custodial sentences in prison than there were 25 years ago.
    Vicky Spratt, refinery29.com, 22 Sep. 2021
  • Screens alert users to how many free stalls there are and ping custodial staff when soap or paper towels need replacing.
    Nicole Goodkind, CNN, 3 Feb. 2024
  • Investing in the stock market can be done for the child using custodial accounts.
    Darnell Mayberry | , cleveland, 22 July 2023
  • His father was a public health inspector, and his mother worked on the custodial team at BBC.
    Brian Murphy, Washington Post, 29 July 2023
  • The risk of needing to pay that money back is higher when there are custodial issues, Steber said.
    Susan Tompor, oregonlive, 1 Aug. 2021
  • The gap was brought down to $4 million by cutting consulting fees, landscaping, custodial, and other expenses.
    Byerik Stokstad, science.org, 10 July 2024

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