salient
adjective
prominent or conspicuous.
salients
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pluralof salient.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Like a general staff's war maps, the charts were studded with varicolored pins, indicating danger points, quiet sectors or advancing salients in the industrial front.
From Time Magazine Archive
North of them, still fighting on the salients driven south and east from Lingayen Gulf and across the base of Bataan from Olongapo, were seven other divisions.
From Time Magazine Archive
The entire eastern front blazed into action as other Red attacks were launched south of Leningrad, against the Belgorod, Donets and Mius River salients, at the Nazi bridgehead in the Caucasus.
From Time Magazine Archive
The heaviest fighting was apparently concentrated at the cutting edge of two bulging Chinese salients.
From Time Magazine Archive
It seems to be the lot of the P.P.s to get into salients.
From My Year of the War Including an Account of Experiences with the Troops in France and the Record of a Visit to the Grand Fleet Which is Here Given for the First Time in its Complete Form by Frederick Palmer
