How to Use custodial in a Sentence

custodial

adjective
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  • Her mother is the custodial parent.
  • The custodial staff is a ghost crew, so the schools are dirty.
    — Christopher Weber, Fortune, 21 Mar. 2023
  • When the custodial staff is out sick and there’s no way to keep the school clean, the schools close.
    — Michelle Ruiz, Vogue, 4 Mar. 2021
  • The custodial account must be in place for at least three years.
    — Jeff Lazerson, Orange County Register, 29 Aug. 2024
  • At one of the high schools, just five of 14 custodial positions are filled, says Dr. Price.
    — Henry Gass, The Christian Science Monitor, 25 Mar. 2022
  • Meanwhile the Yum Center custodial staff will clean the aisles and seats around the arena.
    — Jeff Greer, The Courier-Journal, 16 Mar. 2018
  • Mary Barr Clay fought for women to have equal property and custodial rights, but at the heart of it all was the vote.
    — Sarah Ladd, The Courier-Journal, 1 Sep. 2020
  • However, if the child is younger than 18, an adult will have to open what is known as a custodial IRA.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 25 July 2021
  • Later in the fall, a full-time spot became available on the custodial staff at Williamson.
    — Ben Thomas | Bthomas@al.com, al, 13 Aug. 2019
  • Your custodial days are not for you, but for your children.
    — Amy Dickinson, Washington Post, 24 Jan. 2024
  • The custodial staff did an audit to find out how many flags were needed.
    — Alyssa Alfano, cleveland.com, 28 Apr. 2018
  • Those of us in public health have a custodial and fiduciary duty to the health of the public.
    — Isaac Feldberg, Fortune, 12 Feb. 2020
  • Perez’s apparent suicide marks the seventh custodial death for the year at the Bexar County Jail and the second in the past nine days.
    — Jacob Beltran, ExpressNews.com, 6 Aug. 2019
  • The phrase is a nod to the ownership of private keys, which are like a password for non-custodial crypto wallets.
    — Taylor Locke, Fortune, 30 Nov. 2022
  • None of the money went to the custodial parents entitled to child support.
    — Bruce Vielmetti, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 25 May 2022
  • There was also one almost equally large burst of particles at 8 o’clock in the evenings—when the custodial crew came around to clean.
    — Megan Molteni, Wired, 19 Aug. 2020
  • The empty beer cans and the whiskey bottle were saved in May of 2019 by custodial staff from the trash cans of Gentry and her case specialist Stephen Penrose.
    — Scott Wartman, The Enquirer, 11 Aug. 2020
  • The custodial staff found her body in a women’s bathroom on the second floor that afternoon.
    — Christopher Williams, Sun Journal (lewiston, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Jan. 2022
  • Cleanup was done by the school district's custodial staff, Johnson said.
    — Bob Dohr, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 26 June 2019
  • This overrides the regular custodial schedule and may take place in LA or out of state.
    — Natalie Stone, PEOPLE.com, 10 July 2020
  • Why didn’t the same lawyers who shook with fury in the face of custodial abuse harness the same energy to oppose the wars that created a pretext for it?
    — Stephen Pomper, Foreign Affairs, 21 Sep. 2021
  • If there are a lot of gains in the custodial account, though, parents would be smart to get a tax pro’s advice before making this move.
    — Liz Weston, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Mar. 2024
  • Then your children age out, and you are left as a custodial parent to raise these children that both parents love.
    — Christopher Keating, Hartford Courant, 12 Mar. 2024
  • The child’s non-custodial mother is in custody and charges are pending, police said.
    — Christine Condon, Baltimore Sun, 15 June 2022
  • The photos taken of the custodial staff in the hours after the Capitol came under siege are some of the most powerful images from that day.
    — Washington Post, 16 Jan. 2021
  • Tony Dewright Payne, 28, was found lying in the middle of a street April 11, according to a custodial death report.
    — Dana Branham, Dallas News, 6 Dec. 2020
  • The other threat is the potential need for custodial care.
    — Liz Weston, OregonLive.com, 31 Dec. 2017
  • And hours later, the brown and Black custodial staff who work there every day and keep the beautiful building running cleaned it all up.
    — Chris Cillizza, CNN, 6 Jan. 2022
  • In the case of Synapse and Evolve, these accounts operate as custodial deposit accounts, where a third party—such as Synapse or the bank itself—opens and manages the account at a bank like Evolve for the benefit of another party.
    — Ilona Limonta-Volkova, Forbes, 1 Jan. 2025
  • Jaquez provided every player with black sweatsuits, along with the coaching staff and custodial staff at Camarillo.
    — Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 5 Jan. 2025

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