How to Use salient in a Sentence

salient

1 of 2 adjective

• So black and white are the most salient, then red, and so on.
  — Smithsonian, 19 Sep. 2017
• But even the most salient cultures need legs to stand on.
  — Kartik Mandaville, Forbes, 5 Oct. 2021
• Barack Obama and Bill Gates are both big fans of Harari—is the salient point.
  — Christian Wiman, Harper's magazine, 20 Jan. 2020
• Now the cost of keeping that base may be a more salient concern.
  — Laura Forman, WSJ, 27 Feb. 2019
• Her first and last names, the most salient parts, look and sound as white as her features.
  — New York Times, 5 May 2020
• Of course, the salient issue is the ambit of the president’s duties.
  — Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 17 Sep. 2019
• Below are some salient points of contention and what Babs has to say about them.
  — Ilana Kaplan, Los Angeles Times, 7 Nov. 2023
• But Trump ensures the issue stays salient by talking about it all the time.
  — James Hohmann, Washington Post, 17 May 2018
• Of course, in the real world, voters will hear a few other salient facts.
  — David Roberts, Vox, 22 June 2018
• This is probably the most salient part of the argument.
  — Rani Molla, Vox, 14 Aug. 2019
• Here's a helpful guide to the latest ones, and how their salient features stack up at a glance.
  — Lisa Eadicicco, Time, 5 Oct. 2017
• But the more salient point is that to be a true version of the Shanahan offense, the fullback should be out there.
  — J.p. Pelzman, Forbes, 21 Sep. 2021
• That brings me to the most salient point: Like all of JLab’s buds, the Minis come at a pretty amazing price point of $40.
  — WIRED, 10 Nov. 2023
• Each sense has been tuned over millions of years to detect the most salient range of stimuli.
  — Allison Parshall, Quanta Magazine, 10 Oct. 2022
• Why do salient quotes have the power to imprint on one’s psyche?
  — Philip Chard, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 17 May 2018
• The ones that don’t work as well tend to skirt the issues instead of squarely landing a salient point.
  — Dallas News, 15 Feb. 2023
• The salient issue is the time away from home and its impact on the relationship.
  — Amy Dickinson, Washington Post, 23 Apr. 2023
• Lightly oblique eyes, small nose, black lank hair, sparse beard, salient cheek bones.
  — Longreads, 1 Aug. 2017
• Whether or not that's a fully salient argument is meant to be open.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 5 Mar. 2024
• The scenes from it are as salient in my memory as those from my own childhood.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Oct. 2019
• Though the models were made nearly a hundred years ago, the theme is as salient as ever.
  — Myles Karp, National Geographic, 27 Dec. 2019
• They are asked to email their achievements over the past six months and send screenshots of their most salient lines of software code.
  — Martine Paris, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Nov. 2022
• But nowhere did Long report the salient fact that the top marginal rate used to be 70 or 90 percent.
  — Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 2 June 2022
• Trump’s response to Covid-19 may be a more salient issue for voters this fall.
  — John Tozzi, Bloomberg.com, 15 Sep. 2020
• The more salient effect was that men would be freed from the burden of committing to women.
  — Kyle Smith, National Review, 30 July 2021
• The tension between Dax and Mack boils over in one of the more emotionally salient moments of the film.
  — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Dec. 2023
• The report determined six of the most salient impacts of climate change.
  — Zayna Syed, The Arizona Republic, 14 Oct. 2021
• Markets and culture are more salient than climate change for the farmers, and that’s also true for the eaters.
  — Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 31 May 2018
• These are simple products and the main salient feature is the interest rate.
  — The Economist, 27 July 2019
• Setting aside the salient fact that some men wear makeup these days, this is a product that delivers across the board.
  — Blu Atlas, The Salt Lake Tribune, 30 Sep. 2022

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salient

2 of 2 noun

• The courage required for such defiance is the salient point.
  — Rachel Hadas, The Conversation, 8 July 2022
• The question of how much the therapy will cost is just as salient.
  — Walid Gellad, Wired, 12 Oct. 2020
• The challenge for Democrats has been keeping health care salient.
  — Eric Levitz, Daily Intelligencer, 3 July 2018
• The salient point here is why the West won’t — indeed, can’t — fully cut Russia off.
  — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 4 Mar. 2022
• Use your presentation to highlight all the salient points of your longer plan.
  — Christopher Davenport, Forbes, 30 June 2022
• But surely the salient point is that 11 of the 13 states voted against Drayton’s proposal.
  — Barton Swaim, WSJ, 25 Mar. 2022
• The Vessel’s civic failings have helped make its attraction as a suicide spot one of the salient facts about it.
  — Justin Davidson, Curbed, 30 July 2021
• Either way, the salient questions about philanthropy, for most people, have to do with the size and the quality of a donor’s heart and soul.
  — Nicholas Lemann, The New Yorker, 23 May 2022
• Either way, there is no escaping the salient call for self-inquiry.
  — Erica Ariel Fox, Forbes, 2 Nov. 2021
• But immigration was locked in as a salient issue the moment Trump entered the race.
  — Osita Nwanevu, The New Republic, 28 Oct. 2021
• Claims of Drake being a culture vulture have become less salient with time.
  — Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 21 June 2022
• One salient piece of information is the oxygen levels in Mr. Trump’s blood.
  — Gina Kolata, New York Times, 3 Oct. 2020
• The doctor updated me on the salient changes in my father's condition.
  — Cnn Staff, CNN, 1 June 2020
• The salient point is that come Friday morning, what transpired the night before isn’t going to make much difference in the grand scheme of things.
  — Libby Watson, The New Republic, 14 Oct. 2020
• The family snapped a photo to commemorate the salient moment in history — for the three of them and for the nation.
  — Molly Longman, refinery29.com, 15 June 2020
• But the certainty of death, rather than the hubris of assumed eternity, was the salient cosmic feeling of the 1990s internet.
  — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 19 Dec. 2022
• One salient question for a writer of an airplane suspense novel: What does the crew do when a person dies on board?
  — Ellen Gamerman, WSJ, 12 May 2021
• Kudla said Left made many salient points during his report.
  — Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 22 Jan. 2021
• This told Bartal that, for the free-roaming rats, the salient moment was releasing the restraint, rather than playing with their friend.
  — Max G. Levy, Wired, 5 Aug. 2021
• But what’s most salient about these groups is a trailblazing optimism.
  — Emily Wilson, Bon Appétit, 12 Nov. 2020
• In the process, Metz manages to touch on many of the salient controversies swirling around AI without getting bogged down by taking sides.
  — Washington Post, 19 Mar. 2021
• The attacks, moderates warned, have proved salient and powerful - and Democrats need to figure out a way to address them now.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 6 Nov. 2020
• The class metaphor is fairly obvious, but salient points are made in the extreme lengths people will go to hold their status over others.
  — Bill Keveney, USA TODAY, 10 Aug. 2021
• For another thing, the profiler must decide which Thiel is the salient one—which of his many and varied pursuits cut to the essence of his character.
  — Sebastian Mallaby, The Atlantic, 14 Sep. 2021
• Each of those nods felt salient and potent, a way to make this impossibly global event feel deeply local.
  — Jon Caramanica, New York Times, 13 Feb. 2022
• Keeping a brand salient to new consumer groups and consumer behaviors is the secret to thriving.
  — Sampo Parkkinen, Forbes, 17 May 2022
• The Severodonetsk salient represents perhaps the most vulnerable point of the entire front line.
  — Yaroslav Trofimov, WSJ, 10 May 2022
• For just one salient example, Trump downplayed the dangers of the coronavirus, which is the very reason so many women are now in crisis.
  — Kara Alaimo, CNN, 28 Aug. 2021
• But this, much like drinking to manage his physical pain, was not a salient solution.
  — Niko Stratis, SPIN, 7 Apr. 2022
• Tamsin Edwards graciously tweeted and Storifyed some salient points, but the full audio of the talk is now available.
  — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 10 Oct. 2012

Last Updated: 25 Apr 2024