janitor

Example Sentences

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Since its international release, the Galashiels janitor said hundreds of sufferers and supporters from around the world have contacted him.

From BBC • Jun. 8, 2026

“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

Four men, including the one in the janitor uniform and another with only one leg, performed the roles of soldiers and carried real spears.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver