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
Holding noun - A decision made by a court or tribunal regarding a case it has heard.
Both words in one sentence
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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.
Source: Series / Shop 'Til You Drop - 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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