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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2025

The couple knew they wanted to elope, and on a trip to Los Angeles they discovered that the state of California offers confidential marriage certificates, so their marriage wouldn’t be discovered by the media.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 3, 2024

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

“Roberto, you have to tell your mother. This elope stuff is wrong.”

From "Bodega Dreams" by Ernesto Quinonez

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

She elopes and marries a vulgar "hustler," but is speedily divorced.

From Ivory Apes and Peacocks by Huneker, James

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

We eloped less than a month after my return.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 22, 2023

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

From Salon ● Sep. 6, 2023

“She escaped,” Mami said, which meant that Gloria had eloped.

From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago

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

Wait, could eloping with an Elvis impersonator serving as my officiant actually be kind of romantic?

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 10, 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

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