How to Use salient in a Sentence

salient

adjective

• So black and white are the most salient, then red, and so on.
  — Smithsonian, 19 Sep. 2017
• The more salient question is, why?
  — Washington Post, 7 Jan. 2026
• Jacir weaves in more salient archival imagery.
  — Ritesh Mehta, IndieWire, 5 Sep. 2025
• Lightly oblique eyes, small nose, black lank hair, sparse beard, salient cheek bones.
  — Longreads, 1 Aug. 2017
• 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
• 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
• Of course, in the real world, voters will hear a few other salient facts.
  — David Roberts, Vox, 22 June 2018
• Below are some salient points of contention and what Babs has to say about them.
  — Ilana Kaplan, Los Angeles Times, 7 Nov. 2023
• But a salient difference lies in the details.
  — Noah White, Miami Herald, 6 Sep. 2025
• Each sense has been tuned over millions of years to detect the most salient range of stimuli.
  — Allison Parshall, Quanta Magazine, 10 Oct. 2022
• 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
• That’s one of the many, many salient details this 84-minute film neglects to share with us.
  — David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 29 Jan. 2026
• Though the models were made nearly a hundred years ago, the theme is as salient as ever.
  — Myles Karp, National Geographic, 27 Dec. 2019
• In part, some countries are just more salient to Western observers.
  — Daniel Treisman, Washington Post, 19 June 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
• Bourdain isn’t the only salient contrast.
  — Gary Baum, HollywoodReporter, 22 Sep. 2025
• 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
• The salient issue is the time away from home and its impact on the relationship.
  — Amy Dickinson, Washington Post, 23 Apr. 2023
• 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 salient point is that there is no perfect hog hunting gun for every circumstance.
  — Michael Dickerson, Outdoor Life, 10 Apr. 2023
• These are simple products and the main salient feature is the interest rate.
  — The Economist, 27 July 2019
• The report determined six of the most salient impacts of climate change.
  — Zayna Syed, The Arizona Republic, 14 Oct. 2021
• Perhaps the most salient point about witch trials, students quickly come to see, is gender.
  — Bridget Marshall, The Conversation, 23 Oct. 2019
• Of course, the salient issue is the ambit of the president’s duties.
  — Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 17 Sep. 2019
• Barack Obama and Bill Gates are both big fans of Harari—is the salient point.
  — Christian Wiman, Harper's magazine, 20 Jan. 2020
• 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
• 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
• Some salient political and social events are swirling in the background.
  — Lisa Wong MacAbasco, Vogue, 20 Oct. 2025