How to Use foster home in a Sentence

foster home

noun
  • There are just shy of 4,000 such foster homes statewide.
    Jason Laughlin, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Sep. 2023
  • Amy has tried for six weeks but cannot find a home nor a foster home.
    Joan Morris, The Mercury News, 5 Feb. 2024
  • Long spent many years going in and out of foster homes.
    Sarah Nelson, The Indianapolis Star, 11 Jan. 2024
  • The puppy seems to be settling in well to his foster home.
    Natasha Dado, PEOPLE.com, 2 Mar. 2022
  • Cline, a Texas native, bounced around foster homes as a child.
    Melissa Gomez, Los Angeles Times, 11 Mar. 2024
  • The girl, who is estranged from her mother, has since been placed in a foster home.
    Rebecca Rosenberg, Fox News, 9 Nov. 2023
  • In 2018, the boys were removed from their foster home and placed with the West family.
    Minyvonne Burke, NBC News, 23 June 2022
  • Moreno said the child is happy in his foster home and refers to the Bernhardts as his parents.
    Peggy O’Hare, San Antonio Express-News, 6 Oct. 2021
  • Later, his father went to prison, and Hunter was placed in a foster home.
    Anchorage Daily News, 4 May 2021
  • At the last minute, the worker said, staff were able to track down an emergency foster home for the teen.
    BostonGlobe.com, 9 June 2021
  • Dobby received a warm bath, a big meal, and a large bed at her foster home.
    Kelli Bender, Peoplemag, 19 Sep. 2022
  • The boy ended up having to go to a special needs foster home.
    Seth Abramovitch, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 June 2023
  • She was placed at the Carmelite Home in East Chicago for a month before they were moved to a foster home, charges state.
    Meredith Colias-Pete, Chicago Tribune, 29 June 2023
  • Wood and his twin brother Josh were raised in a foster home by White parents.
    Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Aug. 2021
  • In years past, they were invited to visit the Byrds’ foster home and spend time with their child.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Nov. 2021
  • She was taken to a foster home and remains there as of today.
    Olivia Mitchell, cleveland, 13 Aug. 2021
  • He was rescued by a kind person, and transferred to a foster home.
    Kaitlyn Keegan, Hartford Courant, 8 July 2022
  • Fable spent some quality time in one of the Friends for Life foster homes.
    The Arizona Republic, 31 Mar. 2023
  • Houle needed to find a new foster home, but the nearest Native home was halfway across the state.
    Time, 9 Nov. 2022
  • Paul had been kicked out of the house at 12 and was living in hippie communes or foster homes or sometimes on the street.
    Sesshu Foster, Los Angeles Times, 13 Apr. 2023
  • At the end of the play, the murderer is revealed to be the older sibling of a boy who was killed in an abusive foster home.
    Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 18 Sep. 2022
  • Cinsere was placed in the foster home of Latoya Spry, who is not named as a defendant in the lawsuit.
    Gregory Yeestaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 22 June 2022
  • Ma'Khia Bryant was 16 when she was shot and killed by police outside of her foster home in Columbus, Ohio.
    Kiara Alfonseca, ABC News, 14 May 2021
  • Currently, 10 cats are being held at the shelter and six are in foster homes.
    Marina Johnson, Detroit Free Press, 8 Mar. 2023
  • Upon discharge, Nate was to be sent to a foster home more than an hour away from the school that had become his happy place.
    Wendy Grossman Kantor, Peoplemag, 28 Jan. 2023
  • Police records indicate there had been reports of trouble at the foster home in the past.
    Nicquel Terry Ellis, CNN, 6 May 2021
  • Sasha went back to Ukraine in early August to live in a foster home near Zaporizhzhia.
    David L. Stern, Washington Post, 3 Sep. 2023
  • The devoted volunteer helped find the dog a foster home.
    Kelli Bender, Peoplemag, 8 Feb. 2024
  • Trusted Company lived in a foster home until Dee had the space to bring her to Bright Futures in 2018.
    Maggie Menderski, The Courier-Journal, 14 Mar. 2023
  • Some of the animals will go to foster homes and will be available for adoption from their foster home.
    Stephanie Casanova, Chicago Tribune, 2 Oct. 2022

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