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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

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

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

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

It will be recognized as a variant of the stories about the youth who visits the “Water King” and elopes with one of that monarch’s daughters.

From Russian Fairy Tales A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore by William Ralston Shedden Ralston

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

Then, when she was 18, Janet suddenly and unexpectedly eloped with doe-eyed soul singer James DeBarge.

From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2024

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

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 17, 2024

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

From Salon ● Sep. 6, 2023

I’m told no one was really surprised when Sanaubar eloped.

From "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini

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

Then he got an offer from a Christian label in Nashville; he moved again and immediately met a woman with whom he ended up eloping.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 20, 2024

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

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