How to Use janitor in a Sentence

janitor

noun

• Either way, a janitor has been paged to sweep all the jaws off the floor.
  — Dan Snierson, EW.com, 26 May 2021
• The book is a memoir of Montañez’s life as a janitor who rose to a senior marketing role.
  — Angie Orellana Hernandez, Los Angeles Times, 18 May 2021
• The group is interrupted by a wheezy man in a janitor’s costume—Rife, again—meant to be Marc Maron.
  — Carrie Battan, The New Yorker, 13 Aug. 2024
• Frazier was raised in a rough part of North Philadelphia, the son of a janitor and grandson of a man born into slavery.
  — Washington Post, 4 May 2021
• Building cleaner, janitor and general cleaner jobs jumped 80%.
  — Jack Kelly, Forbes, 24 May 2021
• Jenkins grew up in the low-income Ingleside neighborhood and went to school while his father worked as a janitor at Coit Tower.
  — Bob Egelko, San Francisco Chronicle, 27 Apr. 2021
• Now, Romero wants janitors who aren’t part of the union yet to join them.
  — Syra Ortiz Blanes, Miami Herald, 2 Mar. 2024
• 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
• Goodall has worked as the janitor at Chauncey Rose Middle School for 23 years.
  — Sara Vallone, Miami Herald, 30 May 2024
• 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
• 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
• 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 classroom was breached at 12:50 p.m. using keys from a janitor.
  — Marlene Lenthang, NBC News, 1 June 2022
• Caye spent two years as a student at the school after her mother took a job as a janitor.
  — Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 18 June 2021
• Not just any janitor, but the janitor at my high school.
  — How To Save A Country, The New Republic, 22 June 2023
• Below, a janitor named Jakob Schmid spotted the leaflets.
  — Jud Newborn, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Feb. 2023
• Urchins have returned to some spots, but most reefs simply don’t have enough janitors left to keep them clean.
  — Lisa S. Gardiner, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Aug. 2024
• The 23-year-old recently started a new job as a janitor and is spending a lot of time with close friends.
  — oregonlive, 9 Oct. 2021
• In one brief but memorable scene, the school’s janitor is dressed in Freddy Kreuger’s iconid red and green striped sweater.
  — Michelle Delgado, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Oct. 2021
• Even as a janitor, Rodriguez would prefer to work full time.
  — Shirley Leung, BostonGlobe.com, 11 July 2022
• The fire was discovered overnight, when a janitor at the hospital noticed flames on the third floor.
  — Claire Rafford, The Indianapolis Star, 18 Mar. 2022
• That meant Thomas, 54, wanted the teenage boys to go to a small janitor’s closet or the little AV room attached to his office.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 17 June 2021
• Law enforcement breached the classroom door at 12:50 p.m., using keys from a janitor, and shot and killed the suspect.
  — Elizabeth Joseph, CNN, 9 June 2022
• Cary was working as a janitor and staying in Yosemite's Cedar Lodge, the same motel the trio was residing in.
  — Skyler Caruso, PEOPLE.com, 22 Apr. 2022
• The daughter of a maid and janitor, Demings, 65, grew up in a two-room home in Jacksonville with six older siblings.
  — Skyler Swisher, Orlando Sentinel, 27 Oct. 2022
• On Christmas morning, Withey and the others were able to use snow blowers from the janitor’s closet to free their cars from the mounds of snow.
  — Sharif Paget, CNN, 30 Dec. 2022
• The group ignored the command and, using a janitor's key, entered the room and engaged Ramos, shooting and killing the 18-year-old gunman.
  — Dan Carson, Chron, 3 June 2022
• As the janitor, Danny DeVito only makes a small cameo, but the duo's work together extends beyond lifetimes.
  — Rendy Jones, EW.com, 6 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 30 Sep 2024