Example Sentences

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One is desperately seeking a husband, another going through a divorce, one has eloped and now has a child and the other is about to be married to a man she is unsure she loves.

From The Guardian • Jun. 8, 2018

Within two weeks of their arrival, one of the sisters’ roommates has eloped straight from the factory gates, not even stopping by the hostel to pick up her clothes.

From New York Times • Sep. 24, 2016

Ella is absent because she has eloped, taking our cook, with her.

From "Ella Enchanted" by Gail Carson Levine

Do you know that the young German who always stood at the Exchange, near the seventeenth pillar, has eloped with the daughter of Busselinck and Waterman?

From A Wanderer in Holland by Marshall, Herbert, R. W .S.

And if the Princess Lalla don’t show up tonight I’ll know that some good-looking Stanton boy has eloped with her.

From Girl Alone by Austin, Anne