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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

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

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

“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

Now assuming that a wife is abducted or elopes, it is, I think, on the same persons that the duty of aiding the injured husband would fall.

From Kinship Organisations and Group Marriage in Australia by Thomas, Northcote Whitridge

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

The new brides revealed earlier this month that they eloped in October after being engaged for a year.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 4, 2024

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

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 17, 2024

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

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

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

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