janitor

Example Sentences

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The company hires people for roles like janitor, maintenance worker and in other trades.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 22, 2026

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

“What would bring him to that point. I thought, ‘What if he was a janitor when he was younger, and someone noticed and trained him?’

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 18, 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

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 "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin