Sentence examples for eloped as from inspiring English sources

Early on in that process — back in 2005, when New York State had begun to recognize same-sex marriages from other jurisdictions, but years before same-sex couples could get married in the state — all four parents "eloped," as they phrased it, to Canada.

Women and girls are killed by husbands, fathers, brothers, and other relatives if they are considered to have brought "shame" to the family, for example by eloping — as in Saba's case — or being suspected of having relations with a man out of wedlock.

The marriage took place in secret, and many fundamentalist Christian parents would disown their teenagers for eloping as Romeo and Juliet did.

Young and in love Sima and Ruby eloped in February 1940 as the world erupted into war.

The couple met and eloped in 1944 as Mr. Ford was waiting to ship out with the Navy.

In the India of that era, divorce was legally almost impossible and women who eloped were regarded as no better than whores and were shunned by their own families.

Kathleen Peyton, known as Kathy, eloped when she was 21.

When John was 10, after the family had moved to Edinburgh, Herbert eloped with Margaret Ludwig, known as Ludo, a music lecturer.

Aulakh and Geeta, whom he described as his first love, eloped to Belgium when Geeta was a teenager as her family disapproved of the relationship.

At 17 or 19 and knowing little of love or of men, she eloped with Beery, although the elopement included her mother as witness.

Born in 1917, she was exactly the same age as Jessica Mitford – who eloped with Winston Churchill's nephew to the Spanish civil war.