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How to use janitor in a sentence

19 example sentences · noun

Janitor means someone who looks after the maintenance and cleaning of a public building. Example: “Folks in our neighborhood come from every walk of life, prince and pauper, investor and janitor.”

More sentences with janitor

  • Folks in our neighborhood come from every walk of life, prince and pauper, investor and janitor.From the entry walk of life
  • Ask the janitor to come and change the lightbulb.From the entry change
  • That janitor who's always talking about blood creeps me out.From the entry creep out
  • The janitor broomed up the shards of glass.From the entry broom up
  • He worked his way up from janitor to regional manager.From the entry work one's way up
  • As the company had no dedicated janitor, all employees were expected to do their fair share of cleaning up after lunch.From the entry fair share
  • Yesterday’s lowly charwomen mopped floors, as do today’s cleaning ladies, janitors and minimum-wagers at McDonald’s.2021 December 7, Michael Arndt, “Celebrating the transcendental joy of household chores — yes, even mopping”, in Naples Daily News, volume…. From the entry minimum-wager
  • You take a janitor with a broom and send him down the aisle sweeping.1951, Lafayette Ronald Hubbard, The Research and Discovery Series, New Era Publications, page 76. From the entry superultimate
  • Like the dweebs, Pinteresters, janitor and library attendees had gone.2021, Marilyn Madlion, OC OD: Overcoming Her Overdose, Xlibris, →ISBN. From the entry Pinterester
  • Locked, empty classrooms on either side, other halls opening up to go down to the caf, two janitors' closets.2009, Lili St. Crow, Betrayals. From the entry caf
  • The nation is still surviving, Let the mnation be reborn. ¶ My position as janitor should be promoted for this.2006 December 20, thayes93, “Micronations”, in Ultimate Guitar Com, page 14. From the entry mnation
  • You could spend the five big ones and the client could get downsized to a Jiffy Lube janitor the next week.2002, George Avgerakis, Desktop Video Studio Bible: Producing Video, DVD, and Websites for Profit, McGraw-Hill Professional, →ISBN, page 364. From the entry big one
  • It started when a janitor found a corpsicle floating in a rooftop swimming pool next to Central Park one August morning.1992, Spider Robinson, Lady Slings the Booze, page 9. From the entry corpsicle
  • Then I got work as a janitor.1982, Patricia Cayo Sexton, The New Nightingales, page 95. From the entry shapeup
  • It was just like an old novel: an ornate iron gate was opened by a liveried janitor, looking askance at my rather derelict pushbike.1984, Tad Sobolewski, Crossing the Bridges, Adelaide, S.A.: Dezsery Ethnic Publications, →ISBN, page 3. From the entry pushbike
  • Today's janitor will be tomorrow's president.1979, Yearn H[ong] Choi, Introduction to Public Administration: Essays and Research Notes, Virginia Beach, Va.: The Donning Company…. From the entry adhocrat
  • I couch-surfed in my Portland friends' guest rooms (I had a key ring that looked like it belonged to a janitor) while I tried to reinvent myself.2004, Elizabeth Peavey, Maine & me: ten years of Down East adventures, page 13. From the entry couch surf
  • After she was brutally murdered, Jim Conley, the black janitor at the factory, testified that Frank had killed the girl, then forced Conley to dispose of the body.1984 July 1, Leah D. Frank, “Stage: The Trial of Leo Frank”, in New York Times. From the entry Conley
  • I left home and school at 16, and worked as a janitor, a printer, a salesperson, a busboy, and hustled briefly when I was 19 to make ends meet.1981 December 12, Scott Tucker, “Bring On The Cannon”, in Gay Community News, volume 9, number 21, page 5. From the entry beans

Meaning of janitor

  1. noun Someone who looks after the maintenance and cleaning of a public building.
  2. noun A caretaker or custodian; someone who maintains a school building specifically and may serve other administrative roles (the term caretaker is also used in Hong Kong, particularly in ESF and independent British schools).
  3. noun A doorman.

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Questions about janitor in a sentence

How do you use janitor in a sentence?
Janitor is used as a noun. For example: “Folks in our neighborhood come from every walk of life, prince and pauper, investor and janitor.”
What is a short sentence with janitor?
“Today's janitor will be tomorrow's president.”
What does janitor mean?
Janitor means someone who looks after the maintenance and cleaning of a public building.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: janitor (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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