How to Use janitor in a Sentence

janitor

noun
  • Now, Romero wants janitors who aren’t part of the union yet to join them.
    Syra Ortiz Blanes, Miami Herald, 2 Mar. 2024
  • For Girls to play chess in the basement with the gruff janitor, Mr. Shaibel.
    Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 13 Nov. 2020
  • Either way, a janitor has been paged to sweep all the jaws off the floor.
    Dan Snierson, EW.com, 26 May 2021
  • Kids in her class thought maybe a janitor dropped a trash can or somebody dropped a chair or a desk.
    Hartford Courant, 7 Sep. 2022
  • The woman took the knife and threw it into the janitor cart outside.
    Meredith Colias-Pete, chicagotribune.com, 16 Mar. 2022
  • Bob Marley worked in a car plant and as a janitor in the Hotel Du Pont in the early 1970s.
    New York Times, 6 Dec. 2020
  • Goodall has worked as the janitor at Chauncey Rose Middle School for 23 years.
    Sara Vallone, Miami Herald, 30 May 2024
  • Marchant, who worked as a janitor for the church, would contest much of the process of his disownment.
    The Salt Lake Tribune, 24 Apr. 2021
  • Doe claimed in the suit that the janitor saw Doe and Gardner alone in the classroom, but did not report the encounter.
    Robert Salonga, The Mercury News, 30 Apr. 2024
  • This donation is the sum of 136 hours of his labor in the prison working as a porter/janitor.
    Maham Javaid, Washington Post, 3 Mar. 2024
  • The portal to the multiverse is a janitor’s closet down the hall from Deirdre’s desk.
    Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 24 Mar. 2022
  • Demings is the daughter of a maid and a janitor, and Rubio is the son of Cuban immigrants.
    Skyler Swisher, Orlando Sentinel, 8 Nov. 2022
  • An old janitor ​greeted ​her warmly and gave her a cup of coffee in the chilly morning.
    New York Times, 9 Nov. 2020
  • The classroom was breached at 12:50 p.m. using keys from a janitor.
    Marlene Lenthang, NBC News, 1 June 2022
  • That same week, one janitor went home feeling sick the day he was tested.
    USA Today, 12 Nov. 2020
  • Caye spent two years as a student at the school after her mother took a job as a janitor.
    Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 18 June 2021
  • Not just any janitor, but the janitor at my high school.
    How To Save A Country, The New Republic, 22 June 2023
  • Below, a janitor named Jakob Schmid spotted the leaflets.
    Jud Newborn, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Feb. 2023
  • And God stayed late to create the sky, ignoring the sounds of the janitor’s vacuum.
    Zach Zimmerman, The New Yorker, 14 Apr. 2021
  • Urchins have returned to some spots, but most reefs simply don’t have enough janitors left to keep them clean.
    Lisa S. Gardiner, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Aug. 2024
  • The janitor had noticed Kanoute’s Black skin but made no mention of that to the dispatcher.
    Michael Powell, chicagotribune.com, 26 Feb. 2021
  • The 23-year-old recently started a new job as a janitor and is spending a lot of time with close friends.
    oregonlive, 9 Oct. 2021
  • Years later, a janitor at the school caught Martinez’s eye.
    Nanette Asimov, San Francisco Chronicle, 14 Mar. 2021
  • In one brief but memorable scene, the school’s janitor is dressed in Freddy Kreuger’s iconid red and green striped sweater.
    Michelle Delgado, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Oct. 2021
  • Lewis, who worked there as a janitor, said the bed count swelled from 17, on an average day, to 28, and that others were turned away for lack of space.
    Washington Post, 11 Nov. 2020
  • Even as a janitor, Rodriguez would prefer to work full time.
    Shirley Leung, BostonGlobe.com, 11 July 2022
  • The group is interrupted by a wheezy man in a janitor’s costume—Rife, again—meant to be Marc Maron.
    Carrie Battan, The New Yorker, 13 Aug. 2024
  • As a janitor, Kristofferson had been trying to get Cash to listen to his work, but to no avail.
    Mike Barnes, The Hollywood Reporter, 29 Sep. 2024
  • The fire was discovered overnight, when a janitor at the hospital noticed flames on the third floor.
    Claire Rafford, The Indianapolis Star, 18 Mar. 2022
  • Inside, a small crowd of home health aides, janitors, and school-cafeteria workers, most of them Black or Hispanic, were on a lunch break, after a morning of canvassing.
    Eric Lach, The New Yorker, 25 Sep. 2024

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