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
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
She rested in an incubator in the shelter’s ICU until staffers found a foster home where she could recover.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 17, 2025
Paula's baby stayed in a foster home for a few weeks before he was taken to his adoptive family.
From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2024
The foster home is a jacked-up duplex with the face of a battered building—bricks missing, indecipherable and colorful graffiti.
From "They Both Die at the End" by Adam Silvera
