foster home
Example Sentences
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The state placed her in an “affirming” foster home, where she shares a bedroom with a teenage boy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 27, 2026
Two children who disappeared from their foster home in the early hours of Thursday morning have been found, the Los Angeles Police Department said Sunday.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2025
The stigma stayed with PJ his whole life, even after finding a loving foster home and, in later years, tracking down his birth mother, who was separated from him when he was a one-year-old.
From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2025
By May 1984, two of the Galston sisters — Denise and Debbie — had joined Sindle at the foster home.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 18, 2024
I suspected he had found me a foster home and that I was going to be “repatriated”—the term used to describe the process of reuniting ex-child soldiers with their former communities.
From "A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier" by Ishmael Beah
