How to Use foster home in a Sentence

foster home

noun
Definition of foster homenext
  • 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
  • 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
  • Sh-neila Lee was once in a foster home for less than 24 hours.
    — Leah Asmelash, charlotteobserver, 12 July 2018
  • 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
  • The girl, who cannot be named, has been in the foster home since the middle of October.
    — Mark Curnutte, Cincinnati.com, 27 June 2018
  • 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
  • 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
  • Dobby received a warm bath, a big meal, and a large bed at her foster home.
    — Kelli Bender, Peoplemag, 19 Sep. 2022
  • 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 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
  • The lawyer then confirmed that the children — who are 6, 9 and 11 — were placed in foster homes through Cayuga, the largest of the agencies in New York.
    — Annie Correal, BostonGlobe.com, 30 June 2018
  • The agency then places the children in shelters or foster homes.
    — Louisville Courier Journal, The Courier-Journal, 21 June 2018
  • 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
  • His parents were drug addicts and he was placed in 14 foster homes.
    — Andy Naylor, The Athletic, 6 Aug. 2024
  • She was taken to a foster home and remains there as of today.
    — Olivia Mitchell, cleveland, 13 Aug. 2021
  • Sadly, both adoptive homes and foster homes are in short supply.
    — John B. Bowman, Sun Sentinel, 21 Nov. 2024

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