foster home
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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They are all now settling into a foster home.
From BBC
The state placed her in an “affirming” foster home, where she shares a bedroom with a teenage boy.
While their foster homes and orphanages and schools always changed, Danny could count on two things: his sister and their book.
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“It’s his fifth foster home, which isn’t that bad actually. We had one kid who’d been in twelve.”
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She had made him the quilt that had come with him to every foster home he’d ever had.
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