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

He got the janitor job in the mid-1970s, and a decade later he and his wife experimented in their kitchen to create the new snack.

From Los Angeles Times • May 30, 2025

I needed money for rent, so I got a job as a janitor for the engineering building.

From "Educated" by Tara Westover