How to Use janitor in a Sentence

janitor

noun
  • Brinson got her a job as a janitor at a gym.
    — Alex Morris, Rolling Stone, 19 Mar. 2026
  • Either way, a janitor has been paged to sweep all the jaws off the floor.
    — Dan Snierson, EW.com, 26 May 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
  • That same week, one janitor went home feeling sick the day he was tested.
    — USA Today, 12 Nov. 2020
  • 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
  • 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 woman took the knife and threw it into the janitor cart outside.
    — Meredith Colias-Pete, chicagotribune.com, 16 Mar. 2022
  • 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
  • The brown corn pop is shown wearing a janitor's uniform and sweeping the floor.
    — Leada Gore, AL.com, 26 Oct. 2017
  • The night janitor and a playgirl shoplifter are trapped in a discount store with armed robbers.
    — Los Angeles Times, 22 Sep. 2019
  • The applicant worked with the janitor to help pay his high-school tuition.
    — Nicole Hong, WSJ, 28 Oct. 2018
  • Elisa, a mute janitor played by Sally Hawkins, falls in love with it.
    — Robin Givhan, chicagotribune.com, 4 Mar. 2018
  • An old janitor ​greeted ​her warmly and gave her a cup of coffee in the chilly morning.
    — New York Times, 9 Nov. 2020
  • The principal said the janitors have been keeping an eye out overnight.
    — Lauren M. Johnson, CNN, 4 Sep. 2019
  • 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
  • People know me as the garbage man, janitor, that’s signed to Jay-Z.
    — Mackenzie Cummings-Grady, Billboard, 11 July 2025
  • 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
  • His father worked as a janitor and mother a governess.
    — Jan Goldsmith, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Sep. 2025
  • So all four schools, staff, janitors, the police guards, anybody can come and get a full bag of produce.
    — Chris Wragge, CBS News, 12 June 2026
  • Predictably, the Democrats’ journo-janitors rushed in to scoop up the donkeys’ mess.
    — Deroy Murdock, National Review, 19 Apr. 2020
  • Video shows a janitor pushing the cart through the food court area, police said Tuesday.
    — Brooke Baitinger, sun-sentinel.com, 15 Oct. 2019
  • The janitor of the school is more important than the principal.
    — Mac Engel june 29, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 30 June 2026
  • Monty pulls Tyler's pants down and sodomizes him with a janitor's broom as Tyler screams in pain.
    — refinery29.com, 23 May 2018
  • 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
  • Think janitors all the way up to the CEOs that make a hospital hum.
    — Phil Blair, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Oct. 2025
  • 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
  • On the other side of the school, the masonry walls in the janitor’s closet and stairwell will be replaced.
    — Suzanne Baker, Naperville Sun, 8 May 2018
  • Sally Hawkins is Elisa, the mute janitor who, we’re told, was rescued from a river as a foundling.
    — Michael Phillips, idahostatesman, 25 Dec. 2017
  • 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

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