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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2025

When Abraham read the script, he really got upset because up until that time, he thought that it was Chris’ idea to elope and that Chris had corrupted his beautiful daughter.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 30, 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

She said she would elope with him if Ma tried to make her marry Tweedie.

From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes

Carmelita elopes, cavorts with Lord Epping and tosses pies with her husband’s ex-fiancee.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 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

If a man elopes with the wife of a friend, he is haled before a magistrate and fined.

From An African Adventure by Isaac Frederick Marcosson

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

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026

“Downton Abbey” welcomed Tom Branson, a working-class Irishman, into their home and family when the youngest Crawley daughter, Sybil, eloped with him.

From Salon ● Jul. 19, 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

Her parents tried to make her a ward of court, but the couple eloped to Brighton and later married.

From BBC ● Jan. 12, 2024

“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

However, eloping couples could pop over the border and be married simply by stating their intent in front of witnesses - usually at the blacksmiths.

From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026

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

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