Example Sentences

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My younger sister and her partner have been fostering dogs for a couple of years.

From Slate • May 14, 2021

“We have been fostering together for seven years,” they told me in an email.

From Slate • Mar. 5, 2020

Sagheer Hussain and Fatima Gora, from Bradford, have been fostering children for 16 years and have cared for children from many different backgrounds.

From BBC • Jan. 20, 2020

Gordon and Brenda Potter, from Surrey, have been fostering for 43 years and have taken in approximately 200 children.

From BBC • Jun. 7, 2019

I don't know what the game is, but I do know that you have been fostering discontent,—it may even amount to revolt,—among; these men.

From West Wind Drift by McCutcheon, George Barr