salients
- plural of salient.
Example Sentences
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Only half of the salients mapped during the summer by the House had been fought over by the Senate.
From Time Magazine Archive
India, which captured the most territory in December, made a major concession in agreeing to return some 5,100 sq. mi. of Pakistani territory�all except a few strategic salients in Kashmir.
From Time Magazine Archive
The heaviest fighting was apparently concentrated at the cutting edge of two bulging Chinese salients.
From Time Magazine Archive
Last week, on one of Wall Street's sorest salients, there was Peace.
From Time Magazine Archive
And the brigadier had every cause for anxiety, for the under-features of Minie Kloof could swallow a thousand men, and still leave a mocking enemy in possession of the salients.
From On the Heels of De Wet by James, Lionel
