Explore Elope through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like flee or fly. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Elope meaning
- Of a married or engaged person, to run away from home with a paramour.
- Of an unmarried person, to run away secretly for the purpose of getting married with one's intended spouse; to marry in a quick or private fashion, especially without a public period of engagement.
- To run away from home (for any reason).
Elope vertaling naar Nederlands
Using Elope
- The main meaning on this page is: Of a married or engaged person, to run away from home with a paramour. | Of an unmarried person, to run away secretly for the purpose of getting married with one's intended spouse; to marry in a quick or private fashion, especially without a public period of engagement. | To run away from home (for any reason).
- Useful related words include: run off, flee, fly, take flight.
- Possible Dutch translations are: weglopen.
- In the example corpus, elope often appears in combinations such as: to elope, elope with.
Context around Elope
- Average sentence length in these examples: 21.2 words
- Position in the sentence: 0 start, 8 middle, 10 end
- Sentence types: 18 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Elope
- In this selection, "elope" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 21.2 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, mukerji, couples and soon stand out and add context to how "elope" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include 17 to elope with reporter and about to elope. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "elope" sits close to words such as abad, abolishment and abr, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with elope
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Ava will indeed settle down and agree to elope soon enough. (11 words)
Ralph and Josephine plan to sneak ashore to elope that night. (11 words)
They declare their love for each other and eventually plan to elope. (12 words)
Currie shook the monkey off the back at Flemington on Saturday with his first win since returning to the saddle, on Pretty Brazen in the group 2 Let's Elope. (30 words)
Jimmy Starr wrote, "If I were an Oscar, I'd elope with It's a Wonderful Life lock, stock and barrel on the night of the Academy Awards". (28 words)
The real foe in this story is the wife, as she takes her husband’s becoming a wolf as the perfect excuse to elope with another man. (27 words)
Example sentences (18)
Currie shook the monkey off the back at Flemington on Saturday with his first win since returning to the saddle, on Pretty Brazen in the group 2 Let's Elope.
Teenager Romina Ashrafi ran away from her home to elope with her 34-year-old boyfriend Bahamn Khavari after her family objected to the union.
The outlet believed Gerber was planning to elope with Davidson, but these allegations were denied by Gerber’s rep and obviously this never happened.
Ava will indeed settle down and agree to elope soon enough.
Born into two different societal circumstances, Aditya (Vivek Oberoi, at his peak) and Suhani (Rani Mukerji) elope after their parents reject their planned nuptials.
Runaway socialite Ellie Andrews (Claudette Colbert) is en route to the Big Apple to elope with a fortune-hunting flyboy.
The two were allegedly having an affair for a while and suddenly decided to elope.
Shortly before that nonsense, we called out the blog for wrongly reporting that Rihanna and Jameel were planning to elope in secret, which hasn’t happened.
That's where the Love Commandos come in. They run 500 safe houses and help couples elope or hide from relatives.
The real foe in this story is the wife, as she takes her husband’s becoming a wolf as the perfect excuse to elope with another man.
Dick Deadeye intercepts the Captain and tells him of the lovers' plans to elope.
Her sister Eliza foils Georgiana's marriage to the wealthy Lord Edwin Vere, when the couple is about to elope.
Jimmy Starr wrote, "If I were an Oscar, I'd elope with It's a Wonderful Life lock, stock and barrel on the night of the Academy Awards".
Pickford added to her 1909 Biographs (Sweet and Twenty, They Would Elope, and To Save Her Soul, to name a few) with films made in California.
Ralph and Josephine plan to sneak ashore to elope that night.
They declare their love for each other and eventually plan to elope.
Verdon shocked her parents and instructors when she abandoned her budding career aged 17 to elope with reporter James Henaghan in 1942.
Wertheim (1994), p. 74 He begged her to elope with him, but her family opposed the match because Crane lacked money and prospects, and she declined.
Common combinations with elope
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- to elope 13×
- elope with 7×