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Salient is an English word with synonyms like outstanding or prominent. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.

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Salient in a sentence

Salient | Saliently

Salient meaning

  1. Worthy of note; pertinent or relevant.
  2. Prominent; conspicuous.
  3. Depicted in a leaping posture.

Using Salient

  • The main meaning on this page is: Worthy of note; pertinent or relevant. | Prominent; conspicuous. | Depicted in a leaping posture.
  • Useful related words include: outstanding, prominent, spectacular, striking.
  • In the example corpus, salient often appears in combinations such as: the salient, most salient, salient features.

Context around Salient

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 25 words
  • Position in the sentence: 8 start, 7 middle, 5 end
  • Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Corpus analysis for Salient

  • In this selection, "salient" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 25 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around the word, particularly, clearly, less, features, powerful and propaganda stand out and add context to how "salient" is used.
  • Recognizable usage signals include 1996 the salient lessons of and a particularly salient powerful threat. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "salient" sits close to words such as abolishing, acidity and akbar, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with salient

The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:

This is the salient curse of the Amhara politics today. (10 words)

These two issues are clearly salient individually, and even more powerful collectively. (12 words)

Salient specializes in urban revitalization projects, such as its latest work in Victoria's Chinatown. (15 words)

When Howard’s conservative coalition won office in 1996, the salient lessons of needless death and foolish deployment showed the extent that Anzac was to be commemorated: as a hat doffing ceremony to war’s necessity rather than its avoidable dangers. (41 words)

Here’s a salient point for TikTok marketers – TikTok users are more open to ads than general internet users, which means that promotions in the app are likely more welcome than they are on Facebook, Instagram, etc. (37 words)

Clearly, the language of terrorism as a particularly salient, powerful threat that we need to combat, and using that as a justification for restricting speech — that all comes out of the post-9/11 period. (35 words)

Example sentences (20)

And to me, the following are the most salient features of his investment style are the following.

But it’s in the space between societies where the friend-enemy dichotomy becomes most salient: in fact, it is central to most international relations analyses.

Clearly, the language of terrorism as a particularly salient, powerful threat that we need to combat, and using that as a justification for restricting speech — that all comes out of the post-9/11 period.

Here’s a salient point for TikTok marketers – TikTok users are more open to ads than general internet users, which means that promotions in the app are likely more welcome than they are on Facebook, Instagram, etc.

He said he’s taken “so many” courses that he can’t recall the exact number, but a few remain particularly salient in his mind, including a Beatles class.

He said that claims Muslims would soon become India’s majority religion had proved to be a salient “propaganda” tool for Hindu nationalists.

If gun ownership loses popular appeal as a salient personal identity – because it becomes socially discouraged or simply goes out of style – one of the major impediments to leftward policy change will become less formidable.

In my mind, this is the most salient example of how we are different,” Gallego added in a tweet on Monday.

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Russian forces struck and immobilized a British tank supplied to Ukrainian forces for the first time as Kyiv pushes some of its best equipment into a salient in the southeast in search of a breakthrough.

Salient specializes in urban revitalization projects, such as its latest work in Victoria's Chinatown.

These two issues are clearly salient individually, and even more powerful collectively.

The topics discussed include the SK history and salient features, decentralization, and local governance among others.

This is the salient curse of the Amhara politics today.

When Howard’s conservative coalition won office in 1996, the salient lessons of needless death and foolish deployment showed the extent that Anzac was to be commemorated: as a hat doffing ceremony to war’s necessity rather than its avoidable dangers.

But abortion may not have been as salient an issue as it was in the 2022 midterm elections.

Economic justice is a salient argument for tax relief for the 1099 crowd; perhaps a provisional halving of tax burden or a “freelancer’s credit” that helps those plying their trades outside a corporate umbrella.

Essentially, while the visits by the concerned citizens may have come and gone, Ebie’s insight as captured above explains some silent but salient points.

Ministers can’t be trusted to act as judge and jury over what is “salient” – a word Sturgeon used.

Partisan tenor is somewhat less salient in the courts, but even taking it into account here, structural protections are mostly quite strong.

Previous research has shown that politically salient image patterns—propaganda by way of visual content—have been used to sow discord and even threaten the integrity of democratic elections.

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Common combinations with salient

These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:

Frequently asked questions

How do you use "salient" in a sentence?
An example: "And to me, the following are the most salient features of his investment style are the following." This page contains 10+ example sentences with the word "salient" from authentic English texts.
What does "salient" mean?
Salient means: Worthy of note; pertinent or relevant.
What are synonyms of "salient"?
Common synonyms of "salient" include: outstanding, prominent, spectacular, striking, conspicuous, re-entrant, inclined, projection.
How many example sentences with "salient" are there?
Voorbeeldzinnen.info contains at least 10+ example sentences with "salient", drawn from a database of millions of English sentences.