Sample Sentences for
salient
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    The flaps of his gabardine jacket parted slightly over his healthy rump, and it is that, without any sense of derision at all, that I recall as Brinker's salient characteristic, those healthy, determined, not over-exaggerated but definite and substantial buttocks.  (source)
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    And in the days that followed, a man who had long prided himself on his ability to tell a story in the most succinct manner with an emphasis on the most salient points, by necessity became a master of the digression, the parenthetical remark, the footnote, eventually even learning to anticipate Sofia's relentless inquiries before she had the time to phrase them.  (source)
    salient = important
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    The salient thing of this other world seemed fear.  (source)
    salient = most noteworthy
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    Hanne set the food out on plastic placemats, and soon she knew all the salient facts about him and he her.  (source)
    salient = most noteworthy
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    As the militants secured the city, extinguishing the last large salients of resistance, a partial calm descended,  (source)
    salients = noteworthy areas
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    Daniel Anderson says that new research suggests that children actually don't like commercials as much as we thought they did because commercials "don't tell stories, and stories have a particular salience and importance to young people."†  (source)
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    Jordan had to think for a moment before any memory of high school even clouded its way into his mind, much less a salient one.  (source)
    salient = noteworthy
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    His words were falling down a well, hitting stone salients on their way, and each salient refused to stop them, threw them farther, tossed them from one another, sent them to seek a bottom that did not exist.†  (source)
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    It was his first extended political work and one of the most salient of his life, written at the age of thirty.  (source)
    salient = important
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    Now, Piter, outline for my nephew the salient features of our campaign against the House of Atreides.†  (source)
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    Shigemura described it in Japanese—the salient feature of her physical being, as prominent and extraordinary as baldness might have been in another girl of the same age.†  (source)
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    In the offices around him, official readers go through thick reports, boiling the information down to the salient paragraph.†  (source)
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    There are people who seem to have no notion of sketching a character, or observing and describing salient points, either in persons or things: the good lady evidently belonged to this class; my queries puzzled, but did not draw her out.†  (source)
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