Parent who raises someone who is not their natural or adoptive child.
1 He did everything in his power to give pleasure to his foster - parents .
2 My foster - parents , or my tormentors rather, were called Mr. and Mistress Simon.
3 The two foster - parents flew to him again and again with food.
4 My foster - parents parted with me for money, and I was sent to London.
5 Soon he became a great pet of his foster - parents , who rather spoiled him.
6 Her foster - parents watched her, bewildered, so gentle was she, so thoughtful.
7 To the earnest inquiries of her foster - parents , Fanny could give no very satisfactory answer.
8 My foster - parents had opened a shop-ithad the appearance of a most respectable fruiterer's.
9 She had consulted her foster - parents , and after them her lover.
10 His advance to maturity seemed to his foster - parents dishearteningly slow.
11 Her foster - parents , who were German-born, and had never become thoroughly Americanized, saw no objection.
12 Jim's foster - parents were, in truth, glad to part with him.
13 So long as his foster - parents lived he had had news from them of the Blombergs.
14 She left her foster - parents alone, and threaded the forest.
15 Those you regarded as your parents were but foster - parents , though they bore the same name.
16 As evening was approaching she wished her foster - parents good-bye.
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