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 think I've had one interview for a janitor role.

From BBC • May 28, 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’d heard Katherine’s description of the janitor appearing and disappearing; he’d heard Angela’s description of the plane doing the same thing.

From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix