How to Use foster home in a Sentence

foster home

noun
  • Amy has tried for six weeks but cannot find a home nor a foster home.
    — Joan Morris, The Mercury News, 5 Feb. 2024
  • The son is in prison, and his child was placed with a friend and then in a foster home.
    — Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 31 Jan. 2018
  • Buzz is a very healthy and happy boy and thriving in his foster home.
    — The Arizona Republic, 12 Sep. 2020
  • Ragland recounted a life in and out of foster homes.
    — Cameron Knight, The Enquirer, 24 June 2021
  • Cline, a Texas native, bounced around foster homes as a child.
    — Melissa Gomez, Los Angeles Times, 11 Mar. 2024
  • Some of the girls were in foster homes or on the brink of homelessness.
    — Julie K. Brown, Miami Herald, 19 Sep. 2025
  • Finding foster homes for each of the three puppies was the first step to that.
    — Jack Beresford, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 June 2025
  • Sh-neila Lee was once in a foster home for less than 24 hours.
    — Leah Asmelash, charlotteobserver, 12 July 2018
  • The three children have been placed in a foster home and have returned to school.
    — Carly Ortiz-Lytle, Washington Examiner, 3 Sep. 2020
  • All of Subiza’s kids were placed in a foster home, police said.
    — Devoun Cetoute, Miami Herald, 23 Apr. 2026
  • Dobby received a warm bath, a big meal, and a large bed at her foster home.
    — Kelli Bender, Peoplemag, 19 Sep. 2022
  • Her family is a foster home for pets.
    — Pioneer Press, Twin Cities, 16 Feb. 2026
  • The puppies went to one foster home, where they were hand-fed every few hours.
    — Liz O'Connell, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 May 2025
  • The girl, who is estranged from her mother, has since been placed in a foster home.
    — Rebecca Rosenberg, Fox News, 9 Nov. 2023
  • At the foster home, the girl has a room with giraffes and hot-air balloons on the walls.
    — Theresa Vargas, Washington Post, 21 June 2018
  • 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 boy ended up having to go to a special needs foster home.
    — Seth Abramovitch, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 June 2023
  • 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
  • His parents were drug addicts and he was placed in 14 foster homes.
    — Andy Naylor, The Athletic, 6 Aug. 2024
  • Later, his father went to prison, and Hunter was placed in a foster home.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 4 May 2021
  • The agency then places the children in shelters or foster homes.
    — Louisville Courier Journal, The Courier-Journal, 21 June 2018
  • The six minor children were said to be split up to live in two foster homes for the time being.
    — CBS News, 29 Jan. 2018
  • Those who are not will be placed in a foster home to ride out the storm, the station reported.
    — Madeline Holcombe, CNN, 31 Aug. 2019
  • Lyden came from a broken home, Rivera said, and lived in foster homes as a child.
    — Jeremy C. Fox, BostonGlobe.com, 6 June 2018
  • The odds were stacked firmly against him, since nights in that foster home in Fayetteville.
    — Luca Evans, Mercury News, 31 Mar. 2025
  • Children are placed in foster homes where the horrors are worse than the homes from which they were removed.
    — Elise Patkotak, Alaska Dispatch News, 4 July 2017
  • 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
  • Wood and his twin brother Josh were raised in a foster home by White parents.
    — Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Aug. 2021
  • But on his first night at his Mid-City foster home, Scrim escaped.
    — Chelsea Brasted, Axios, 11 Feb. 2025

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