How to Use custodian in a Sentence

custodian

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  • The end of the video showed Goff’s ID badge as a school custodian.
    — Tiffini Theisen, orlandosentinel.com, 29 Mar. 2021
  • The custodian had run four blocks and banged on doors until someone let him in to use the phone.
    — Laurel Weibezahn, sun-sentinel.com, 19 June 2019
  • In the 1986 movie, Matlin took the Oscar for her performance as a custodian at a school for the deaf.
    — al, 14 Mar. 2022
  • Third choice is to make Coinbase the custodian of your coins.
    — William Baldwin, Forbes, 11 Mar. 2021
  • There’s a custodian walking by, and then a scene with droplets of blood.
    — Morgan Baila, refinery29.com, 9 July 2018
  • The custodian will handle the transfer of funds from your 401(k) into the new gold IRA.
    — Jon Stojan, USA TODAY, 4 Jan. 2024
  • Bank of New York Mellon, which is one of the largest and safest cash custodians in the world, holds our cash reserves.
    — Nicole Goodkind, CNN, 30 May 2023
  • The custodians, the teachers, the workers, the maids, the bus drivers and not to mention the Black veterans.
    — C. Isaiah Smalls Ii, Miami Herald, 18 Feb. 2024
  • But he is also asked to fill in as a bus driver and a custodian.
    — Jocelyn Gecker, Anchorage Daily News, 22 Mar. 2023
  • The suspect may have been a custodian employed by the school, said Lt.
    — Corina Knoll, latimes.com, 30 June 2018
  • Let’s be better custodians of our minds and our hearts and our time.
    — Kathryn Jean Lopez, National Review, 19 Aug. 2019
  • Povlsen has spoken about being a custodian of the landscape and about his deep love for the area.
    — WIRED, 31 Jan. 2023
  • And, there are many checks and balances in place with the firm’s third-party custodian.
    — Mindy Diamond, Forbes, 16 Apr. 2021
  • Lee-Ann Wilber was, all agree, a wonderful custodian of the house and its lore.
    — Erika Mailman, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 July 2021
  • Hill was a custodian at the school, according to Aaron.
    — CNN, 13 Nov. 2023
  • Worse, the custodian has of late been locking the bathrooms for two and a half hours of the school day for reasons that are unclear to her and her peers.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 8 Dec. 2019
  • Two years ago, the 42-year-old father of four spent his days mopping floors as a school custodian.
    — CBS News, 17 Feb. 2022
  • Ronald Phillips, a custodian at the church, said and the security guard both met Yan on Sept. 15.
    — Carol Robinson | [email protected], al, 8 Oct. 2021
  • Or put another way: A custodian would have to work 2,000 years to take home what Iger made that year.
    — Nina Metz, Chicago Tribune, 22 Sep. 2022
  • The county clerk’s office is the custodian of records and in charge of the software transition.
    — Josephine Peterson, Dallas News, 5 June 2023
  • On Tuesday, beloved school custodian, 61-year-old Mike Hill, will be laid to rest.
    — Emily Shapiro, ABC News, 31 Mar. 2023
  • The three children killed in the attack were 9-year-old students, and the adults killed were a custodian, a substitute teacher and the head of school.
    — Phil Helsel, NBC News, 7 Nov. 2023
  • He was slotted into a group called the Voice Masters and hired as a custodian.
    — Gavin Edwards, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Aug. 2022
  • Omer is one of 85 custodians that clean buildings on the PSU campus.
    — oregonlive, 25 Jan. 2020
  • She and her husband, Robert Reynolds, 48, who is also a custodian at the church, were given the choice job of handing out hams.
    — Daniel Gonzalez, The Arizona Republic, 9 Apr. 2023
  • Parents and teachers and even custodians made a fuss over them.
    — Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 9 Mar. 2023
  • The church custodian pushed a cart between the aisles, dropping off red hymnals.
    — Jean Hopfensperger, Star Tribune, 3 Apr. 2021
  • The school’s custodian couldn’t open the lock securing the school’s only dumpster.
    — Jonathan Edwards, Washington Post, 4 May 2023
  • The custodian is also tasked in the operation and maintenance of all building systems and equipment in accordance with department policies, procedures, and guidelines.
    — Marcus D. Smith, Sacramento Bee, 22 Jan. 2025
  • Blockstream also plans to partner with exchanges and custodians to bolster its lending and borrowing operations.
    — Nina Bambysheva, Forbes, 23 Jan. 2025

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