How to Use custodial in a Sentence

custodial

adjective
  • Her mother is the custodial parent.
  • Those of us in public health have a custodial and fiduciary duty to the health of the public.
    Isaac Feldberg, Fortune, 12 Feb. 2020
  • That's the concern of many custodial and sanitation workers who are now deemed essential across the country.
    NBC News, 1 Apr. 2020
  • The agency is still working out the details but intends it for custodial staff and employees who come into close contact with visitors.
    Anchorage Daily News, 1 Apr. 2020
  • The agency also plans to phase out contractors in favor of hiring custodial workers in-house, according to the statement.
    USA TODAY, 15 Jan. 2020
  • At end-of-the line stations, custodial workers scrub train handrails and stanchions with germicidal wipes, in addition to their routine car washings.
    Rachel Swan, SFChronicle.com, 5 Mar. 2020
  • From the hospital’s food and custodial staff to family practitioners, every department saw some kind of loss.
    oregonlive, 8 Apr. 2020
  • Washington Township Schools The district said custodial crews are working to keep buildings clean.
    Arika Herron, Indianapolis Star, 9 Mar. 2020
  • Our maintenance, custodial, and grounds colleagues continue to work and keep our many facilities up, running, clean, and manicured.
    Elliott Lapin, Houston Chronicle, 3 Apr. 2020
  • For sentences under two years in France, another judge often decides how much of the custodial sentence must be spent in jail, or whether other measures like house arrest can be applied.
    Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 22 Oct. 2024
  • Teachers and support staff throughout the district are working from home while on-site staff include food service, maintenance, custodial staff, transportation staff, payroll and senior staff.
    Chevall Pryce, Houston Chronicle, 15 Apr. 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
  • 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
  • The empty beer cans and the whiskey bottle were saved in May of 2019 by custodial staff from the trash cans of Gentry and her case specialist Stephen Penrose.
    Scott Wartman, The Enquirer, 11 Aug. 2020
  • 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
  • This overrides the regular custodial schedule and may take place in LA or out of state.
    Natalie Stone, PEOPLE.com, 10 July 2020
  • 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
  • From custodial accounts and 529 plans to real estate and IRAs, each tool plays a unique role in growing and preserving wealth.
    True Tamplin, Forbes, 11 Sep. 2024

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