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
  • 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
  • Your custodial days are not for you, but for your children.
    — Amy Dickinson, Washington Post, 24 Jan. 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • The child’s non-custodial mother is in custody and charges are pending, police said.
    — Christine Condon, Baltimore Sun, 15 June 2022
  • 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 first year of the pandemic, many schools assigned custodial staff to wipe down surfaces frequently throughout the day.
    — Kaiser Health News, oregonlive, 14 June 2022
  • Screens alert users to how many free stalls there are and ping custodial staff when soap or paper towels need replacing.
    — Nicole Goodkind, CNN, 3 Feb. 2024
  • Investing in the stock market can be done for the child using custodial accounts.
    — Darnell Mayberry | , cleveland, 22 July 2023
  • His father was a public health inspector, and his mother worked on the custodial team at BBC.
    — Brian Murphy, Washington Post, 29 July 2023
  • The custodial mother in California gets a court to put out a warrant.
    — Brynn Tannehill, The New Republic, 15 Mar. 2023
  • Police met with a custodial worker who said the church had been burglarized.
    — Tatyana Turner, chicagotribune.com, 13 Mar. 2022
  • The third-degree charges carry a custodial sentence of three to five years in prison, while the fourth-degree offenses carry a sentence of up to 18 months in state prison.
    — Ally Mauch, Peoplemag, 10 Sep. 2022
  • The jury saw footage of all of those custodial interviews at a Circuit Court trial that spanned almost three weeks.
    — Alex Mann, Baltimore Sun, 26 July 2023
  • But the junta has continued its campaign of airstrikes, arrests and custodial torture to counter the armed resistance that has emerged in response to the coup.
    — Feliz Solomon, WSJ, 8 Mar. 2022
  • In order to determine who receives the child support, the court looks at who is the custodial parent — or rather, which parent spends more than 51 percent of the time with the child, Chinitz explains.
    — Hannah Sacks, Peoplemag, 26 May 2023
  • Within weeks of being jailed, he was charged with felony battery of a custodial officer.
    — Kevin Rectorstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 14 Sep. 2022
  • Of these, one was a custodial arrest in which a student was detained and six were handled by the juvenile referral process.
    — Ethan Ehrenhaft, Baltimore Sun, 4 Oct. 2022
  • Elijah Michael has now been returned to his custodial parent after a two day search, police said.
    — Brook Endale, The Enquirer, 14 Jan. 2022
  • The district has struggled to find people for park and golf maintenance, custodial jobs, and food and beverage service for the last couple years.
    — Suzanne Baker, Chicago Tribune, 30 Aug. 2022
  • No custodial measures have been taken against the actor.
    — Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 14 Dec. 2023
  • The News first learned about Knotts’ death during a review of custodial death reports filed to the Texas attorney general’s office.
    — Kelli Smith, Dallas News, 14 Sep. 2023
  • Police arrested the child's non-custodial parents as well as Shultis Sr., the release said.
    — Mirna Alsharif and Christina Maxouris, CNN, 16 Feb. 2022
  • One survey last summer found that close to a third of the nation’s school districts had vacancies in transportation or custodial staff.
    — Tami Abdollah, USA TODAY, 14 Mar. 2023
  • In one case, a 5-year-old girl and a 7-year-old boy were recovered in late January after they were taken by a non-custodial parent, who is their mother.
    — Emma Tucker, CNN, 10 Apr. 2022
  • GameStop on Monday described its new wallet as a self-custodial Ethereum wallet.
    — Will Feuer, WSJ, 23 May 2022
  • In Vermont, school board members have filled in as custodial workers, and in Georgia, a school principal has been helping out in the cafeteria.
    — Washington Post, 20 Jan. 2022

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