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For a while, Pratt worked to monetize the negative attention by calling the paparazzi on himself and Montag, who also agreed to elope in order to keep themselves on “The Hills.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 27, 2026

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2025

In 1827, William came up with a plan to elope, telling Maria to meet him at the Red Barn on the Corder's farm, then run off to Ipswich to get the banns for their wedding.

From BBC ● Apr. 22, 2025

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

From Washington Times ● Jun. 27, 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

A pilot woos a woman doubling for an heiress, then elopes with the heiress.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 4, 2020

The household is upended when Guida elopes with Iorgos, sailing across the Atlantic.

From New York Times ● Dec. 19, 2019

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

Over 189 pages, Irene Iddesleigh tells the story of a young Canterbury lady who marries an older man, realizes she doesn’t love him, and then elopes to America with her tutor.

From Slate ● Jan. 23, 2013

I do not complain against the genius whose heroine elopes with a clean-shaven villain to Brittany and is married in a Gothic church with frescoed chapels.

From An Ocean Tramp by McFee, William

In 1937 Jessica eloped to Europe with her second cousin Esmond Romilly—their ill-starred plan was to head to Spain to report on the civil war there.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 31, 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

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

He has gained tools to regulate his emotions, and his provider shared that in addition to gaining confidence, “he hasn’t eloped from school and can focus for longer periods of time.”

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 24, 2023

She loved him and despite her parents’ objections, she ran away and they eloped.

From "First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers" by Loung Ung

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