How to Use janitor in a Sentence

janitor

noun

• Lindsay was originally a city janitor and worked his way up.
  — Los Angeles Times, 29 Dec. 2020
• Richardson moved into the motel over a year ago after losing her job as a janitor at a homeless shelter.
  — Laura Newberry, Los Angeles Times, 26 Nov. 2020
• Young Beth meets an odd, reclusive janitor in her orphanage’s basement.
  — Washington Post, 25 Nov. 2020
• Her daughter Clarisa Mejia, 23, was a janitor before she was laid off.
  — Nanette Asimov, SFChronicle.com, 24 Dec. 2020
• Furnished and complete with telephone, maid, and janitor service, the Buntmans moved in.
  — Donna Reiner, The Arizona Republic, 27 Nov. 2020
• Her father was a union janitor in a Nob Hill hotel and her mother stitched clothes in Chinatown.
  — Sam Whiting, SFChronicle.com, 22 Dec. 2020
• Police learned that a 43-year-old handyman and former movie theater janitor named Lewis Lent had been driving that truck.
  — Chris Young Ritzen, CBS News, 20 Sep. 2024
• 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
• Now, Romero wants janitors who aren’t part of the union yet to join them.
  — Syra Ortiz Blanes, Miami Herald, 2 Mar. 2024
• 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
• 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
• The classroom was breached at 12:50 p.m. using keys from a janitor.
  — Marlene Lenthang, NBC News, 1 June 2022
• 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
• 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
• 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

Last Updated: 5 Nov 2024