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elope

[ih-lohp] / ɪˈloʊp /


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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

At these times women may declare their love, elope or even end their marriages.

From BBC Nov. 22, 2023

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

From Washington Times Jun. 27, 2023

Mudgett was eighteen when he asked her to elope.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson

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

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

From New York Times Dec. 19, 2019

Antonio is never seen, Portia doesn’t even rate a mention, while Shylock’s relationship with his daughter, Jessica, who elopes with Lorenzo, a Christian, becomes central to the story.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 5, 2018

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 F. S. (Frederick Sadleir) Brereton

At the age of 15, she rejected her concert career, cut off her father completely, enrolled for a psychology degree at the University of California and eloped with a fellow student, named George Born.

From BBC Apr. 23, 2026

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

She and Berman fell in love, and over her parents’ objections eloped to Los Angeles.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 29, 2023

They were engaged a year later and eloped in Las Vegas in 2019.

From Salon Sep. 6, 2023

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

Some were exchanging vows for the first time, while others like Hazel Seivwright-Carney and her husband Rohan Carney came to renew their vows after eloping so many years ago, to the dismay of family.

From Seattle Times Jul. 8, 2023

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

Later, remembering that morning, I had no question in my mind: Grandpa’s eloping wasn’t a matter of him not loving Granny or not respecting the dead.

From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns




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