Flight and Holding

Flight

Flight noun - The act or an instance of getting free from danger or confinement.
Usage example: a work of 19th-century Romanticism depicting the ancient Israelites' flight from Egypt

Holding is an antonym for flight.

Nearby Words: flighty, flighted, flightless, flighting

Holding

Holding noun - A decision made by a court or tribunal regarding a case it has heard.

Flight is an antonym for holding.

Nearby Words: hold, holder, holdout, holdback

Both words in one sentence

  • Home Guard In the novelization, they are flying barely-holding together ships that would have been at home on the flight deck of the Tiger's Claw ten or twenty years earlier.
    Source: Home Guard
  • As such, contestants typically had to run down a flight of stairs holding a very large, vision-obstructing box.
  • Covers Always Lie: A popular cover◊ of the book depicts, presumably, Killashandra holding on to French who is strapped in and holding an old-style plane flight control stick while flying into what appears to be a black hole.
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