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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2025

I think the scene where she tells Chris that they gotta elope is a great scene.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 30, 2025

And they don’t plan to elope, Zephyr says.

From Washington Times ● Jun. 27, 2023

Your son and his wife were well within their rights to elope.

From Slate ● Jan. 25, 2023

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

From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes

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

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

I only hope that gay old wild man takes a fancy to it, and elopes with the whole blessed bunch.

From The Outdoor Chums on the Lake Lively Adventures on Wildcat Island by Allen, Quincy

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

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

I'm only fortunate, and Kyrria is blessed, that she eloped before my letter reached her.

From "Ella Enchanted" by Gail Carson Levine

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

Then he got an offer from a Christian label in Nashville; he moved again and immediately met a woman with whom he ended up eloping.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 20, 2024

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

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