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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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
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
Only half of the salients mapped during the summer by the House had been fought over by the Senate.
From Time Magazine Archive
But as the week went on, the Iranian defenses hardened and the Iraqis found themselves pressed to maintain their salients.
From Time Magazine Archive
On the defense machine guns should be mounted in salients and at points where cross fire can be obtained.
From Manual of Military Training Second, Revised Edition by James A. (James Alfred) Moss
