Sentence examples for salient was from inspiring English sources
Katanga's peculiar southern salient was Leopold's last stab at territorial expansion.
There were no doubt many causes, but most salient was the intellectual groundwork created by Emerson and his followers in the Transcendentalist movement.
The NHS Plan later that year set out a plethora of targets to bring this about, of which the most salient was a commitment to shorten waiting times.
Among the many definitions of Sufi Kathak offered, the most salient was Ms. Chaturvedi's assertion that the dance was a physical working out of one idea: the presence of the Almighty.
A final assault, which secured the remaining areas of high ground east of the Ypres salient, was carried out on November 10, the final day of the more than three-month battle.
The German offensive against the Kursk salient was launched on July 5, 1943, and into it Hitler threw 20 infantry divisions and 17 armoured divisions having a total of about 3,000 tanks.
What is salient is not important.
What makes this all particularly salient is that this new record comes in the week following the Paris shootings.
To a cycling advocate, what's salient is the fact that Bernardin was nearly killed by an automobile.
"The places where it is most salient are those where the least amount of attention has been paid to it".
