ELOPE in a Sentence

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For ELOPE, below is one of 20 sentences:
She had promised to meet Wildeve by the Barrow this very night at eight, to give a final answer to his pleading for an elopement.

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 Meanings and Examples of ELOPE
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elope
 v.  run away, or escape privately, from place or station to which one is bound by duty; run away with a lover
Classic Sentence:
1  I believe she means to elope tonight with Wildeve.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: 8 Rain, Darkness, and Anxious Wanderers
2  Candide, who had his heart upon his lips, told the Spaniard all his adventures, and avowed that he intended to elope with Miss Cunegonde.
Candide By Voltaire
Context  Highlight   In XIX
3  Julia's elopement could affect her comparatively but little; she was amazed and shocked; but it could not occupy her, could not dwell on her mind.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVI
4  She had never been able to attach even those she loved best; and since Mrs. Rushworth's elopement, her temper had been in a state of such irritation as to make her everywhere tormenting.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVIII
5  She had promised to meet Wildeve by the Barrow this very night at eight, to give a final answer to his pleading for an elopement.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: 6 The Two Stand Face to Face
6  "I only hope it is no worse than an elopement," he said.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: 8 Rain, Darkness, and Anxious Wanderers
7  Not a syllable had ever reached her of Miss Darcy's meditated elopement.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 45
8  I am no stranger to the particulars of your youngest sister's infamous elopement.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 56
9  And she smiled as she thought how surprised Mrs. Tarleton would be when no engagement was announced that night--how surprised if there were an elopement.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
10  We were within a few hours of eloping together for Scotland.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 31
11  So there had been a number of elopements with Yankee officers which broke the hearts of Atlanta families.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLI
12  I have heard what elopements are like, continued Dolokhov with a wink.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XVII
13  It's not to be denied that one of 'em has left her sphere, has shot, has eloped, to put it plainly, with the entrails of a time-piece, the mere pendulum of a grandfather's clock.'
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 10
14  She had not eloped with any worse feelings than those of selfish alarm.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVIII
Example Sentence:
1  There is a company in Japan whose business is helping people disappear to elope or to escape moneylenders or abusive situations.
2  She eloped with her lover last week.
3  The young couple eloped because their parents wouldn't let them marry.
4  She eloped with an Army officer.
5  The parents of the eloped couple tried to annul the marriage.
6  When her stern father would not relent and allow her to marry Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett eloped with her suitor.