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He is engaged to his longtime girlfriend with plans to elope.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2025

I think the scene where she tells Chris that they gotta elope is a great scene.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 30, 2025

And they don’t plan to elope, Zephyr says.

From Washington Times ● Jun. 27, 2023

For whatever reason, your stepsister chose to elope.

From Slate ● Mar. 24, 2023

Blowed if I can see where she’s got to . . . she doesn’t seem the type to elope, for instance . . . but still.

From "Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire" by J. K. Rowling

While giving a gift when a couple in your life elopes is a nice gesture, wedding etiquette experts say it’s not required.

From Slate ● Mar. 24, 2023

Carmelita elopes, cavorts with Lord Epping and tosses pies with her husband’s ex-fiancee.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2020

“By Women Possessed” opens in the days before O’Neill elopes with Carlotta.

From New York Times ● Nov. 27, 2016

Bennett's most famous novel The Old Wives' Tale is about two sisters one of whom elopes to a scandalous life in France and the other who stays at home running the family draper's shop.

From BBC ● Jun. 22, 2014

In front all was pitch blackness in the valley in which they stood, but higher up on the elopes beyond fires were burning, and dark figures were occasionally silhouetted against them as they passed.

From A Gallant Grenadier A Tale of the Crimean War by Brereton, F. S. (Frederick Sadleir)

Mary Kay excelled in high school but eloped at age 16 with her first husband, Julius Ben Rogers, and gave birth to two children in rapid succession.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026

William eventually left Suffolk and wrote to the Marten family to say he had eloped with Maria to the Isle of Wight.

From BBC ● Apr. 22, 2025

While at Duke, Driesell eloped with Joyce and got married in December 1952.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 17, 2024

Lorrie met and eloped with Cash’s manger, Stu Carnall; gave birth to two children; and became primarily a stay-at-home mother.

From New York Times ● Jan. 11, 2024

After Grandpa and Miss Love eloped, a lot of people felt sure he had never so much as looked at the milliner till after Granny died and he needed a housekeeper.

From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns

In one trajectory, Helen makes the virtuous decision to avoid eloping with the impatient Jed; she is rewarded for her sacrifice with two decades of spinsterhood—in this universe, a tragic outcome.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2025

Sticks and stones aren't enough to thwart biological attraction, but sometimes those are the only tools available to pastoralists trying to prevent wildlife from eloping with their livestock.

From Science Daily ● May 29, 2024

Christian Hecq and Véronique Vella are exuberantly, wackily brilliant as the shallow Mr. and Mrs. Peachum, who set out to take down the notorious criminal Macheath for eloping with their daughter Polly.

From New York Times ● Jul. 6, 2023

A survey conducted by a diamond company a few months before the pandemic found that more than 90% of millennials said they would consider eloping.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 21, 2023

I mean I figured everybody would be talking about me getting run over by the train instead of about them eloping.

From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns