janitor
Example Sentences
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“I’m crying,” said Nidia Perez, a grandmother and school janitor who caught the game in a plaza in Caracas.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 18, 2026
Charley finds direction when a neighborhood janitor invites him into a pickup game.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 14, 2025
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 • Oct. 27, 2025
The former school janitor who had also served in the RAF had given up bowling himself, but continued to attend the club on a social basis following the death of his long-term partner.
From BBC • Feb. 19, 2025
She’d never felt sorry for a Titan before, but it didn’t seem right taking a brainwashed immortal and turning him into an unpaid janitor.
From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan
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