janitor
Example Sentences
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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
Once freed from slavery, Washington toiled in coal mines, worked as a janitor in exchange for formal education and became a great American orator and leader of the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama.
From Salon
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
