salient

One salient example was Ilyas Kashmiri, one of the highest-ranking al Qaeda commanders.

But in the aggregate, immigration reform is not a salient issue for white evangelicals.

When I sit down someday to write my memoirs and try to characterize this era, I will note three salient political features.

She is skilful in seizing salient characteristics, and her chief aim is to preserve the individuality of her sitters and models.

His head leaned towards her with its salient thrust, its poise of impetus and forward flight.

It may not be unwise to review the grounds that we have been going over, and to glance at the salient points.

But General Lee abandoned the salient after dark, and put his whole force in the base line.

In this salient, now known as the “Bloody Angle,” occurred one of the most terrible hand-to-hand conflicts of modern warfare.