Sentence examples for trying to elope from inspiring English sources

Yet two recent real world cases have struck a nerve: a young couple were stoned to death last week in northern Afghanistan for trying to elope, in a grim sign of the Taliban's resurgence.

A Taliban firing squad killed a young couple in southwestern Afghanistan for trying to elope, shooting them with AK-47s in front of a crowd in a lawless, militant-controlled region, officials said Tuesday.

I was startled to read in it a short chapter -- maybe six pages long -- that while in her thirties Helen had a love affair, became secretly engaged, and defied her teacher and family by trying to elope with the man she loved.

And in a world fraught with such dire events as the Taliban executing a couple for trying to elope, a film that offers a touch of enlightenment is worth talking about (with a small crew of journos) and writing about as well.

Caro sent him pubic hair, dressed as a page boy, farcically tried to elope with him.

They had tried to elope only to be lured back to their remote village in the Archi district by relatives who turned them in.

Now one of those videos showing the full horror of the killings has been broadcast on Afghan television to the shame of Afghan authorities, who have yet to make a single arrest in the deaths of the 19-year-old woman, Siddiqa, and her fiancé, Khayyam, 25, who had tried to elope against their families' wishes.

3.22am: 40km on the bikes in the triathlon, and Alastair Brownlee and Frederic Belaubre attempt to elope.

Hal and Sue attempt to elope, but it is foiled.

In one account, he tried unsuccessfully to elope with her.

It turns out that she and her boyfriend tried unsuccessfully to elope in New Jersey.