How to Use foster home in a Sentence

foster home

noun
  • Additionally, networking volunteers and staff look for foster homes and raise money to help entice a private rescue to take a dog that is at risk.
    Siobhan Gallagher, Sun Sentinel, 30 July 2024
  • The campaign’s goal is to have 50 dogs in foster homes by the end of the month.
    Vivian Barrett, The Arizona Republic, 7 June 2024
  • The Powells put the dog in a foster home for three months.
    Vincent T. Davis, ExpressNews.com, 5 Jan. 2021
  • 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
  • The three children have been placed in a foster home and have returned to school.
    Carly Ortiz-Lytle, Washington Examiner, 3 Sep. 2020
  • 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
  • Buzz is a very healthy and happy boy and thriving in his foster home.
    The Arizona Republic, 12 Sep. 2020
  • 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
  • Each dog enters the foster home in Clarksville timid and fearful, eyes darting this way and that.
    Mike Klingaman, baltimoresun.com, 13 Apr. 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
  • Buzz is living in a foster home with a few other dogs and doing great!
    The Arizona Republic, 12 Sep. 2020
  • Bryant was staying at a foster home when she was killed, reports said.
    David Aaro, Fox News, 26 Apr. 2021
  • 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
  • Later that year, his third foster home, in as many years, turned abusive.
    Michael Waters, The New Yorker, 28 Feb. 2021
  • The crux may be that foster homes for medically fragile and disabled children are quite hard to come by, and Morris and Kerin had a fearsome reputation as quick to sue when things didn’t go their way.
    Teri Sforza, Orange County Register, 24 July 2024

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