Example sentences for: janitor

How can you use “janitor” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The more usual form of singularizing appears when we are told that someone is no longer in the good grace of someone else; the ground for divorce was...; the supervisor or custodian (i.e., janitor] of a school building was also responsible for the upkeep of its ground ; and one reporter, evidently mightily disturbed by the prevalent pluralism, even tried to make a singular noun still more so by lopping off its final s : a specie of mammal (which one might think is right on the money).

  • Darger spent nearly all his life living alone in a rented room in Chicago, earning his living as a janitor in a hospital during the day, going to Mass frequently, and coming home at night to work on his paintings and his writing.

  • On This Week , George Stephanopoulos agreed that Bauer "is becoming the populist in the race," noting that Bauer's supporters "love the fact that he was the son of a janitor."

  • Critics profess surprise that Scottish director Danny Boyle's follow-up to the much-praised Trainspotting should have turned out to be a "pileup of spectacular flakiness" (Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly ). They call the plot, in which a disgruntled janitor (Ewan McGregor) kidnaps and then falls in love with his boss's daughter (Cameron Diaz), "pure, vintage fluff" (Janet Maslin, the New York Times ). Scenes involving angels, played by Delroy Lindo and Holly Hunter, are said to be especially silly.

  • Later in the debate, Hatch spoke, as he always does, of how he once raised chickens and sold eggs and worked as a janitor and has been faithful to his wife for 43 years.


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