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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

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

Her 18-year-old sister, Leah, is secretly dating a Hindu boy whose family emigrated from India; when Ari’s and Leah’s parents refuse to accept the relationship, Leah elopes with Raj and disappears.

From New York Times ● Nov. 24, 2021

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

Aldea elopes with the King of Scythia V. Formosanta visits China and Scythia in search of Amazan VI.

From Voltaire's Romances, Complete in One Volume by

In 2017, the couple revealed that they had quietly eloped in an intimate ceremony.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026

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

At 16, she eloped with her neighbour, Ganpatrao Bhosle, leading to a tumultuous marriage and separation.

From BBC ● Apr. 12, 2026

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2023

“They weren’t asking. They’d eloped, ran off and gotten married without telling their families. And that wasn’t even their biggest news.”

From "Caterpillar Summer" by Gillian McDunn

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

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

But whereas I thought the big news today was Grandpa’s eloping, the first thing Papa said was something about the average life span in America being forty-seven years.

From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns