How to Use janitor in a Sentence

janitor

noun
  • Now, Romero wants janitors who aren’t part of the union yet to join them.
    — Syra Ortiz Blanes, Miami Herald, 2 Mar. 2024
  • For Girls to play chess in the basement with the gruff janitor, Mr. Shaibel.
    — Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 13 Nov. 2020
  • Either way, a janitor has been paged to sweep all the jaws off the floor.
    — Dan Snierson, EW.com, 26 May 2021
  • Predictably, the Democrats’ journo-janitors rushed in to scoop up the donkeys’ mess.
    — Deroy Murdock, National Review, 19 Apr. 2020
  • Mask has worked as a janitor at the high school for 18 years and for a while would sing to the students in the cafeteria.
    — Maureen C. Gilmer, Indianapolis Star, 30 Oct. 2017
  • Kids in her class thought maybe a janitor dropped a trash can or somebody dropped a chair or a desk.
    — Hartford Courant, 7 Sep. 2022
  • The woman took the knife and threw it into the janitor cart outside.
    — Meredith Colias-Pete, chicagotribune.com, 16 Mar. 2022
  • Bob Marley worked in a car plant and as a janitor in the Hotel Du Pont in the early 1970s.
    — New York Times, 6 Dec. 2020
  • Goodall has worked as the janitor at Chauncey Rose Middle School for 23 years.
    — Sara Vallone, Miami Herald, 30 May 2024
  • Marchant, who worked as a janitor for the church, would contest much of the process of his disownment.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 24 Apr. 2021
  • Doe claimed in the suit that the janitor saw Doe and Gardner alone in the classroom, but did not report the encounter.
    — Robert Salonga, The Mercury News, 30 Apr. 2024
  • Elisa, a mute janitor played by Sally Hawkins, falls in love with it.
    — Robin Givhan, chicagotribune.com, 4 Mar. 2018
  • This donation is the sum of 136 hours of his labor in the prison working as a porter/janitor.
    — Maham Javaid, Washington Post, 3 Mar. 2024
  • Monet X Change comes in sweeping the floor dressed as a janitor, which gives way to sparkling hot pants.
    — Joey Guerra, Houston Chronicle, 22 Mar. 2018
  • The brown corn pop is shown wearing a janitor's uniform and sweeping the floor.
    — Leada Gore, AL.com, 26 Oct. 2017
  • The portal to the multiverse is a janitor’s closet down the hall from Deirdre’s desk.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 24 Mar. 2022
  • Demings is the daughter of a maid and a janitor, and Rubio is the son of Cuban immigrants.
    — Skyler Swisher, Orlando Sentinel, 8 Nov. 2022
  • The night janitor and a playgirl shoplifter are trapped in a discount store with armed robbers.
    — Los Angeles Times, 22 Sep. 2019
  • An old janitor ​greeted ​her warmly and gave her a cup of coffee in the chilly morning.
    — New York Times, 9 Nov. 2020
  • Earp at the time worked as a janitor at the school and was on parole for a previous murder.
    — Everton Bailey Jr., OregonLive.com, 22 Aug. 2017
  • Your dog left a poop behind the toilet in your dressing room and our janitor had to pick it up.
    — Hilary Weaver, Vanities, 13 Oct. 2017
  • Your dog left a poop behind the toilet in your dressing room and our janitor had to pick it up.
    — Hilary Weaver, vanityfair.com, 13 Oct. 2017
  • Your dog left a poop behind the toilet in your dressing room and our janitor had to pick it up.
    — Maggie Mallon, Glamour, 13 Oct. 2017
  • The classroom was breached at 12:50 p.m. using keys from a janitor.
    — Marlene Lenthang, NBC News, 1 June 2022
  • The applicant worked with the janitor to help pay his high-school tuition.
    — Nicole Hong, WSJ, 28 Oct. 2018
  • One of those two cars belonged to Gary Daniels, a janitor at Luria Brothers.
    — CBS News, 9 Dec. 2017
  • That same week, one janitor went home feeling sick the day he was tested.
    — USA Today, 12 Nov. 2020
  • Monty pulls Tyler's pants down and sodomizes him with a janitor's broom as Tyler screams in pain.
    — refinery29.com, 23 May 2018
  • When Hamoud returned to work, a manager accused Hamoud of driving past him and the janitor to intimidate him, and later called Hamoud into a meeting with two police officers present, according to the lawsuit.
    — Alex Derosier, Twin Cities, 6 June 2025
  • Before becoming a priest, Francis was a chemical lab technician, a janitor and a nightclub bouncer.
    — Kristina Karisch, The Hill, 25 Apr. 2025

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