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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

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

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

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

Love comes unto all that live, and with not less certainty than death's advances —nay, even the cold, bony frame of death itself, at last comes wooing, and elopes with life.

From The Advocate by Charles Heavysege

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

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

They’d eloped on the Northern Pacific to Seattle—she remembered eating breakfast in the dining car—where he worked for two years in a Harbor Island foundry and for one loading lumber on the waterfront.

From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson

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

A survey conducted by a diamond company a few months before the pandemic found that more than 90% of millennials said they would consider eloping.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 21, 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