eloping
- present participle of elope.
Example Sentences
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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
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
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
