janitor
Example Sentences
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We should be able to leave the movie and not feel like we missed anything if we didn’t stay until the janitors started to sweep.
From Salon
Charley finds direction when a neighborhood janitor invites him into a pickup game.
As cover, he worked as a janitor in a building where many American embassy officials lived—but apparently the KGB didn’t buy it.
From Literature
A museum guard stood outside the bathroom, and janitors cleaned the piece every 15 minutes or so.
Marty comes of age in the Hill Valley of 1985, where vandals have shellacked the high school with so much graffiti that the janitors seem to have given up.
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
